19Failure to attend or produce documents or other things

#### 19 Failure to attend or produce documents or other things 19 Failure to attend or produce documents or other things > > (1) If any person served with a summons to attend a commission, whether the summons is served personally or by being left at the person’s usual place of abode, fails without reasonable excuse to attend the commission or to produce any documents or other things in the person’s custody or control which the person was required by the summons to produce, the person shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 4 penalty units. > > > (2) It shall be a defence to a prosecution under this section for failing without reasonable excuse to produce any documents or other things if the defendant proves that the documents or other things were not relevant to the inquiry. > > **s 19:** Am 1985 No 73, Sch 1 (7); 1993 No 47, Sch 1; 1994 No 32, Sch 3.