Competition and Consumer Act 2010
Sch 2 s 205Compliance with substantiation notices
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205 Compliance with substantiation notices
(1) A person commits an offence if the person:
(a) is given a substantiation notice; and
(b) refuses or fails to comply with it within the substantiation notice compliance period for the notice.
Penalty:
(a) if the person is a body corporate—$16,500; or
(b) if the person is not a body corporate—$3,300.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if:
(a) the person is an individual; and
(b) the person refuses or fails to give particular information or produce a particular document in compliance with a substantiation notice; and
(c) the information, or production of the document, might tend to incriminate the individual or to expose the individual to a penalty.
(3) Subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.