BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 201 Requiring documents relating to conveyance to be produced

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 201

  (1)   A biosecurity officer may require a person who the biosecurity officer suspects, on reasonable grounds, has the custody or control of documents in relation to the conveyance to produce to the officer such of those documents as are specified by the officer.

Note:   A person may commit an offence or contravene a civil penalty provision if the person provides false or misleading documents (see section   137.2 of the Criminal Code and section   533 of this Act).

  (2)   A biosecurity officer:

  (a)   may make copies of, or take extracts from, a document produced under subsection   (1); and

  (b)   for that purpose, may remove the document from the place at which it was produced.

Civil penalty provision

  (3)   A person who is required to produce documents under subsection   (1) must comply with the requirement.

Civil penalty:   300 penalty units.

Note:   This section is not subject to the privilege against self - incrimination (see section   635).