New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK (CHEMICAL RESIDUES) ACT 1975 - SECT 6

6 Questions by inspectors

(1) Where an inspector at any reasonable time informs a person that the inspector is making inquiries for the purposes of this Act in relation to any stock which are chemically affected or which the inspector suspects to be or to have been chemically affected that person shall not:

(a) fail to answer any question being a question relating to those stock put to the person by the inspector, or

(b) make a reply to any such question that is false or misleading in any material particular.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(2) A person referred to in subsection (1) is not excused from answering a question put to the person pursuant to that subsection on the ground that the answer might tend to incriminate the person but neither the question nor the answer is admissible in evidence against the person in criminal proceedings other than proceedings under subsection (1).