CORPORATIONS (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) ACT 2006 - SECT 461.15 Self - incrimination

CORPORATIONS (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) ACT 2006 - SECT 461.15

  (1)   For the purposes of Part   10 - 3, it is not a reasonable excuse for a person to refuse or fail:

  (a)   to give information; or

  (b)   to produce a book;

in accordance with a requirement made of the person, that the information or production of the book, as the case may be, might tend to incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty.

  (2)   Subsection   (3) applies if:

  (a)   before making an oral statement giving information in compliance with a requirement made under this Part or Part   10 - 3, a person (other than a body corporate) claims that the statement might tend to incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty; and

  (b)   the statement might in fact tend to incriminate the person or make the person so liable.

  (3)   The statement is not admissible in evidence against the person in:

  (a)   a criminal proceeding; or

  (b)   a proceeding for the imposition of a penalty;

other than a proceeding in respect of the falsity of the statement.