New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COAL ACQUISITION ACT 1981 - SECT 7

7 Failure to attend relevant proceedings etc

(1) A person is guilty of an offence if:

(a) arrangements in force under section 6 authorise the issue of summonses requiring attendance at relevant proceedings for a purpose specified in section 6 (4), and

(b) the person:

(i) having been served with such a summons, fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the summons, or

(ii) having complied with the summons, fails without reasonable excuse to answer a question put to the person by the person presiding over the relevant proceedings concerned.

(2) A person is guilty of an offence if:

(a) arrangements in force under section 6 provide for evidence in relevant proceedings to be taken on oath, and

(b) the person, having appeared in such proceedings for the purpose of giving evidence, fails without reasonable excuse to take an oath in accordance with a requirement to do so imposed by the person presiding over the proceedings.

(3) A person who in any relevant proceedings gives evidence that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material respect is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.