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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 47AB Powers of investigators

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 47AB

Powers of investigators

47AB Powers of investigators

(1) For the purpose of conducting an investigation under section 47AA, an investigator may, by notice in writing served on any person, require the person to provide to the investigator such information or records relating to the Indemnity Fund or the company's management of the Indemnity Fund as the investigator specifies in the notice.
(2) The notice must specify the manner in which information or records are required to be provided and a reasonable time by which the information or records are required to be provided.
(3) A person who, without reasonable excuse, neglects or fails to comply with a requirement made of the person under this section is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.
(4) A person who provides any information in purported compliance with a requirement made under this section, knowing that it is false or misleading in a material particular, is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.
(5) In this section:

"investigator" means a person appointed by the Attorney General under section 47AA to conduct an investigation in relation to the Indemnity Fund.