47Witnesses to answer questions

47 Witnesses to answer questions

47 Witnesses to answer questions

(1) The Commissioner may require a person who attends a hearing to answer any question that is reasonably related to the hearing.

(2) A person may refuse to answer a question on the ground that the answer might tend to incriminate the person.

(3) A person—

(a) must not fail to comply with a requirement to answer a question, to the extent to which the person is lawfully able to comply with the requirement, and

(b) must not, in purported compliance with a requirement to answer a question, make a statement that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(4) Subsection (3) (b) does not apply to statements made on oath.

s 47: Am 2017 No 42, Sch 1 [48] [50].