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Crime (Confiscation of Profits) Act 1993
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### 99 Complying with document production orders
> [*\[Section 99 Inserted by No. 60 of 2013, s. 12, Applied:01 Mar 2014\]*](/view/html/inforce/2014-03-01/act-2013-060#GS12@EN)
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> > (1) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with a document production order.
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> > Penalty: Fine not exceeding 1 000 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, or both.
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> > (2) A person must not knowingly produce, or make available to the DPP, a document that is false or misleading in a material particular when complying with a document production order.
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> > Penalty: Fine not exceeding 1 000 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, or both.
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> > (3) [Subsection (2)](#GS99@Gs2@EN) does not apply to a person if, at the time the document is produced or as soon as practicable after becoming aware that a document produced is false or misleading, the person –
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> > > > (a) informs the DPP that the document is false or misleading; and
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> > > > (b) indicates the respects in which it is false or misleading; and
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> > > > (c) gives the DPP any correct information about the document that is in the person's possession or control; and
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> > > > (d) provides the DPP with any information the person has concerning who had access to the document that is false or misleading.
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> > (4) A person is not excused from complying with a document production order on the grounds that complying with the document production order would –
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> > > > (a) tend to incriminate the person or expose him or her to a penalty; or
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> > > > (b) be in breach of an obligation of the person to not disclose the existence or contents of the document, whether the obligation arose under an Act or otherwise.
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> > (5) [*\[Section 99 Subsection (5) amended by No. 30 of 2018, s. 11, Applied:10 Dec 2018\]*](/view/html/inforce/2018-12-10/act-2018-030#GS11@Hpa@EN) Any information contained in a property-tracking document produced under a document production order, or any statement or disclosure made by a person in the course of complying with a document production order, is only admissible in evidence in any of the following proceedings:
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> > > > (a) a proceeding against the person for an offence against this section;
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> > > > (b) [*\[Section 99 Subsection (5) amended by No. 30 of 2018, s. 11, Applied:10 Dec 2018\]*](/view/html/inforce/2018-12-10/act-2018-030#GS11@Hpb@EN) any civil proceeding against the person;
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> > > > (c) [*\[Section 99 Subsection (5) amended by No. 30 of 2018, s. 11, Applied:10 Dec 2018\]*](/view/html/inforce/2018-12-10/act-2018-030#GS11@Hpc@EN) any proceeding under this Act that may lead to the forfeiture of property.