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Funeral Funds Act 1979
25Funeral contribution fund etc to provide information in certain cases
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#### 25 Funeral contribution fund etc to provide information in certain cases
25 Funeral contribution fund etc to provide information in certain cases
> > (1) The Secretary may, by notice in writing served on a funeral contribution fund or on any officer or agent of any such fund, require the fund or that officer or agent to lodge with the Secretary, within such period as is specified in the notice—
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> > > (a) such particulars as may be so specified with respect to—
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> > > > (i) existing or former contributors to the fund, or
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> > > > (ii) funeral benefits provided by the fund, or
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> > > (b) such further particulars with respect to the fund or to any of its officers or agents or to its affairs as may be so specified.
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> > (2) A funeral contribution fund on which, or an officer or agent of a funeral contribution fund on whom, a notice under subsection (1) has been served shall not neglect or fail to comply with a requirement contained in the notice when it is within the power of the fund or, as the case may be, the officer or agent to comply with that requirement.
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> > Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
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> > (3) Any information provided pursuant to a requirement contained in a notice served under subsection (1) shall not, if the person providing the information objected, at the time of providing it, to doing so on the ground that it might tend to incriminate the person, be admissible in evidence in any proceedings against that person for any offence, not being the offence of contravening subsection (2).
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> > (4) Any requirement contained in a notice served under subsection (1) may be varied or revoked by a later notice served under that subsection.
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> **s 25:** Am 1992 No 112, Sch 1.