Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An officer may, by written notice given to a person, require the person to make available for inspection by an officer, or produce to the officer for inspection, at a reasonable time and place nominated by the officer, a document relating to a credit business.
(2) The notice must state that--
(a) it is an offence to fail to comply with the requirement unless the person has a reasonable excuse; and
(b) it is a reasonable excuse for a person to fail to comply with the requirement if complying with the requirement might tend to incriminate the person.
(3) A person must comply with the requirement unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.
(4) It is a reasonable excuse for a person to fail to comply with the requirement if complying with the requirement might tend to incriminate the person.
(5) The officer may keep the document to copy it.
(6) If the officer copies the document, or an entry in the document, the officer may require the person responsible for keeping the document to certify the copy as a true copy of the document or entry.
(7) A person must comply with a requirement under subsection (6) unless the person has a reasonable excuse for not complying.
Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.
(8) The officer must return the document to the person as soon as practicable after copying it.
(9) In this section--
officer means an inspector or the chief executive.