INDEPENDENT BROAD-BASED ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2011 - SECT 136 Offence for summoned witness to refuse or fail to answer question

INDEPENDENT BROAD-BASED ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2011 - SECT 136

    (1)     A person who is duly served with a witness summons to attend as a witness to give evidence at an examination before the IBAC, must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to answer a question that he or she is required to answer by the IBAC.

Penalty:     240 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years or both.

S. 136(2) inserted by No. 30/2016 s. 36.

    (2)     If a question that a witness is required to answer by the IBAC is relevant in any respect to the subject matter of the investigation, it is not a reasonable excuse to refuse or fail to answer the question on the ground that the question does not relate to the direct involvement of the witness in identified corrupt conduct.

Note to s. 136 inserted by No. 30/2016 s. 46(7).

Note

Section 185 applies to an offence against this section.

S. 137 inserted by No. 28/2012 s. 21 (as amended by No. 82/2012 s. 151(3)).