84Provisions relating to requirements to give records or information or answer questions

84 Provisions relating to requirements to give records or information or answer questions

84 Provisions relating to requirements to give records or information or answer questions

(1) A person is not guilty of an offence of failing to comply with a requirement under this part to give records or information or to answer a question unless the person was warned on that occasion that a failure to comply is an offence.

(2) A person is not excused from a requirement under this part to give records or information or to answer a question on the ground that the record, information or answer might incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty.

(3) However, information or an answer given by a natural person in compliance with a requirement under this part is not admissible in evidence against the person in criminal proceedings, except proceedings for an offence under this part, if—

(a) the person objected at the time to doing so on the ground that it might incriminate the person, or

(b) the person was not warned on that occasion that the person may object to giving the information or answer on the ground that it might incriminate the person.

(4) A record given by a person in compliance with a requirement under this part is not inadmissible in evidence against the person in criminal proceedings on the ground that the record might incriminate the person.

(5) Further information obtained as a result of a record, information or answer given in compliance with a requirement under this part is not inadmissible on the ground that the record, information or answer—

(a) had to be given, or

(b) might incriminate the person.

(6) This section extends to a requirement under this part to state a person’s name and address.