13CFailure to comply with disclosure notice

13C Failure to comply with disclosure notice

Failure to give information or produce documents in time (1) A person contravenes this subsection if: (a) the person is given a disclosure notice; and (b) the notice requires the person to: (i) give information; or (ii) produce documents or things; of a kind specified in the notice; and (c) the person fails to comply with the notice within the period specified in the notice.

Civil penalty: 60 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person gives the CEO a statutory declaration stating that: (a) the person does not possess the information, document or thing; and (b) the person has taken all reasonable steps available to the person to obtain the information, document or thing and has been unable to obtain it.

Note: A person bears an evidential burden in relation to a matter in subsection (2) (see section 96 of the Regulatory Powers Act).

Failure to attend interview (3) A person contravenes this subsection if: (a) the person is given a disclosure notice; and (b) the notice requires the person to attend an interview to answer questions; and (c) the person fails to comply with the notice.

Civil penalty: 60 penalty units.

Failure to answer questions (4) A person contravenes this subsection if: (a) the person is given a disclosure notice; and (b) the notice requires the person to attend an interview to answer questions; and (c) the person refuses or fails to answer a question.

Civil penalty: 60 penalty units.