Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A police officer
or approved person exercising the powers conferred by section 22 or 23 or
by a search warrant may for the purposes of this Part —
(a)
seize and detain, or make extracts from or copies of, books, papers and
documents found during the course of that exercise;
(b)
require a person to give, or cause to be given, to the police officer or
approved person such information as it is in the power of the person to give
or cause to be given, as the case requires.
(2) Subject to
subsection (3), a person who —
(a)
without reasonable excuse, does not comply with a requirement made to him
under subsection (1); or
(b) in
purporting to comply with a requirement made to him under subsection (1),
gives or causes to be given to the police officer or approved person concerned
information that to his knowledge is false or misleading in a material
particular,
commits a simple
offence.
(3) Notwithstanding
anything in subsection (2), a person shall not refuse or fail to comply
with a requirement made to him under subsection (1) by reason only that
compliance with that requirement would tend to incriminate him or render him
liable to any penalty, but the information given or caused to be given by him
in compliance with that requirement is not admissible in evidence in any
proceedings against him for an offence other than a simple offence under
subsection (2)(b).