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### sec.149A Power to require information
For the purpose of conducting the preliminary assessment of a notification, a National Board may, by written notice given to a person, require the person to give specified information or produce specified documents to the Board within a specified reasonable time and in a specified reasonable way.
The person must comply with the notice unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty—
in the case of an individual—$5,000; or
in the case of a body corporate—$10,000.
Without limiting subsection (2) , it is a reasonable excuse for an individual not to give information or produce a document if giving the information or producing the document might tend to incriminate the individual.
sch s 149A ins 2022 No. 22 s 92
(sec.149A-ssec.1) For the purpose of conducting the preliminary assessment of a notification, a National Board may, by written notice given to a person, require the person to give specified information or produce specified documents to the Board within a specified reasonable time and in a specified reasonable way.
(sec.149A-ssec.2) The person must comply with the notice unless the person has a reasonable excuse. Maximum penalty— in the case of an individual—$5,000; or in the case of a body corporate—$10,000.
(sec.149A-ssec.3) Without limiting subsection (2) , it is a reasonable excuse for an individual not to give information or produce a document if giving the information or producing the document might tend to incriminate the individual.
- (a) in the case of an individual—$5,000; or
- (b) in the case of a body corporate—$10,000.