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Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995
48HProtection against self-incrimination
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48H Protection against self-incrimination
(1) It is a reasonable excuse for a natural person to refuse or fail to give information or do any other thing that the person is required to do by or under this Division, if the giving of the information or the doing of that other thing would tend to incriminate the person.
(2) Despite subsection (1), it is not a reasonable excuse for a natural person to refuse or fail to produce a document that the person is required to produce by or under this Division, if the production of the document would tend to incriminate the person.
S. 48I inserted by No. 15/2016 s. 6.