New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POULTRY MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1986 - SECT 15

15 Questions by inspectors

(1) An inspector may require any occupier of premises on which designated poultry is processed or any person employed in or about those premises to answer questions relating to the observance of this Act or to any matter in connection with the exercise of the inspector’s functions under this Act or the execution of this Act.

(2) A person shall not, when required to answer a question under subsection (1):

(a) except as provided by subsection (3), refuse or fail to answer the question, or

(b) give any answer which is false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(3) A person is not required to answer any question asked of the person under subsection (1) unless the person has first been informed by the inspector asking the question that the person is required to answer the question by virtue of this section.

(4) A person may not refuse to answer a question asked of the person under subsection (1) on the ground that the person’s so doing might tend to incriminate the person or make the person liable to any penalty.

(5) Any answer given by a person pursuant to a requirement made under subsection (1) after the person has been informed in accordance with subsection (3) shall not be admissible in evidence in any proceedings, civil or criminal, against the person, other than in proceedings under subsection (2).

(6) Nothing in this section affects the admissibility in evidence of an answer voluntarily given by a person to a question asked by an inspector but which the inspector did not require that person to answer under this section.