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CHILDREN'S PROTECTION ACT 1993 - SECT 24

24—Obligation to answer questions or furnish reports

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2), a person must not refuse or fail to comply with a requirement to answer a question or furnish a report if the requirement is authorised by an order under this Division.

Maximum penalty: $2 500 or imprisonment for 6 months.

        (2)         A person is not required—

            (a)         to provide information that is privileged on the ground of legal professional privilege; or

            (b)         to answer a question if the answer to the question would incriminate the person of an offence.

        (3)         A person who is required to answer a question or furnish a report under this Division does not, insofar as he or she has acted in good faith, incur any civil liability in complying with the requirement.



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