FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 55W Information gathering powers--obliging persons to appear

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 55W

Notice to appear

  (1)   The Information Commissioner may, by written notice, require a person to appear before the Information Commissioner to answer questions for the purposes of an IC review.

  (2)   The notice must:

  (a)   be in writing; and

  (b)   state that the person must comply with the notice at a specified time that is not less than 14 days after the time at which the person is given the notice; and

  (c)   specify the place at which the person must comply with the notice.

Offence for failure to comply

  (3)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person is subject to a requirement specified in a notice under subsection   (1); and

  (b)   the person engages in conduct; and

  (c)   the person's conduct breaches the requirement.

Penalty for a contravention of this subsection:   6 months imprisonment.

Note:   Chapter   2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.