Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 1316A

             (1)  In a Corporations Act criminal proceeding, a body corporate is not entitled to refuse or fail to comply with a requirement:

                     (a)  to answer a question or give information; or

                     (b)  to produce a book or any other thing; or

                     (c)  to do any other act whatever;

on the ground that the answer or information, production of the book or other thing, or doing that other act, as the case may be, might tend:

                     (d)  to incriminate the body (whether in respect of an offence to which the proceeding relates or otherwise); or

                     (e)  to make the body liable to a penalty (whether in respect of anything to which the proceeding relates or otherwise).

             (2)  Subsection (1) applies whether or not the body concerned is a defendant in the proceeding or in any other proceeding.

             (3)  In this section:

" Corporations Act criminal proceeding" means a proceeding in a court when exercising jurisdiction in respect of a criminal matter arising under this Act.