South Australian Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ACT 1987 - SECT 41

41—Power to require information

        (1)         The Minister, the Chief Executive or a local council may require a person to furnish such information relating to public or environmental health as may be reasonably required for the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         Subject to subsection (3), a person who fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (1) is guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Division 6 fine.

Expiation fee: Division 7 fee.

        (3)         A person is not required to furnish information under subsection (1) if the information would tend to incriminate him or her.

        (4)         A person who furnishes information under this section cannot, by virtue of doing so, be held to have breached any law or any principle of professional ethics.