Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005
35Reasonable excuse
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35 Reasonable excuse
(1) It is a reasonable excuse for a natural person to refuse or fail to give information or do any thing that the person is required to do by or under section 29C, 29G and 29I if the giving of the information or the doing of that other thing would tend to incriminate the person.
S. 35(2) inserted by No. 23/2021 s. 31(3).
(2) It is a reasonable excuse for an individual to refuse or fail to comply with a notice to produce, if complying with the notice would tend to incriminate the person.
S. 35(3) inserted by No. 23/2021 s. 31(3).
(3) It is a reasonable excuse for a person, body or relevant entity to refuse or fail to comply with a notice to produce or a notice to comply if—
(a) in the case of a notice to produce, the person, body or relevant entity believes on reasonable grounds that the person, body or relevant entity does not have any document or information required to be produced under the notice; or
(b) in the case of a notice to comply, the relevant entity reasonably considers that it is unable to comply with the notice.
New s. 36 inserted by No. 63/2016 s. 8, amended by Nos 23/2021 s. 32, 58/2025 s. 39.