Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

EXTRADITION REGULATIONS 1988 - REG 9

(1)

A person who is summoned to attend before a magistrate as a witness shall not:

(a)

without reasonable excuse, fail to attend as required by the summons, after payment or tender of a reasonable sum for expenses of attendance;

(b)

refuse to be sworn or to make an affirmation as a witness or, without reasonable excuse, to answer any question when required to do so by the magistrate; or

(c)

without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to produce any document or other article that the person was required to produce by the summons.

Penalty:   5 penalty units.

(2)

An offence against paragraph (1) (a) is an offence of strict liability.

Note    For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .