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Funeral Funds Act 1979
49HFunds to provide information in certain cases
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#### 49H Funds to provide information in certain cases
49H Funds to provide information in certain cases
> > (1) The Secretary may, by notice in writing served on a pre-paid funeral fund or on any officer or agent of the fund, require the fund or that officer or agent to lodge with the Secretary, within such period as is specified in the notice, any one or more of the following—
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> > > (a) such particulars as may be so specified with respect to existing or former pre-paid contracts,
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> > > (b) such particulars as may be so specified with respect to payments by the fund of amounts held in trust by it,
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> > > (c) 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 person must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with a requirement under this section.
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> > Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.
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> > (3) Information provided by a person in response to a requirement under this section is not admissible in evidence in any proceedings for an offence taken against that person, other than the offence of contravening subsection (2), so long as the person providing the information objected to doing so, at the time of providing it, on the ground that it might tend to incriminate the person.
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> **s 49H:** Ins 2003 No 61, Sch 1 \[35\].