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Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986
36RProtection against self-incrimination
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36R 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 Part 3 or this Part, 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 Part 3 or this Part, if the production of the document would tend to incriminate the person.
S. 36S inserted by No. 60/2015 s. 47.