PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 46BF Witnesses and evidence at transport safety inquiries

PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 46BF

46BF Witnesses and evidence at transport safety inquiries

(1) A Board of Inquiry may summon a person to appear at a transport safety inquiry conducted by the Board to give evidence and to produce any documents that are specified in the summons.

(2) A Board of Inquiry may require a person appearing at a transport safety inquiry to do any one or more of the following--

(a) be sworn or affirmed,

(b) produce a document,

(c) answer a question.

(3) A person attending as a witness before a Board of Inquiry is to be paid expenses of the amount or at the rate approved by the Minister for the purposes of this section.

(4) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with a requirement made of the person under this section.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) in the case of a corporation (being a previous offender)--750 penalty units, or

(b) in the case of a corporation (not being a previous offender)--500 penalty units, or

(c) in the case of an individual (being a previous offender)--375 penalty units, or

(d) in the case of an individual (not being a previous offender)--250 penalty units.