Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006

CHAPTER 13 - OFFENCES  

PART 13-2 - GENERAL MATTERS RELATING TO OFFENCES  

Division 566 - General matters relating to offences  

SECTION 566-20   PRIVILEGE AGAINST SELF-INCRIMINATION NOT AVAILABLE TO BODIES CORPORATE IN CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS  

566-20(1)    
This section applies to a proceeding in a court when exercising jurisdiction in respect of a criminal matter arising under this Act .

566-20(2)    
In the proceeding, a body corporate is not entitled to refuse or fail to comply with a requirement:

(a)    to answer a question or give information; or

(b)    to produce a book or any other thing; or

(c)    to do any other act whatever;

on the ground that the answer or information, production of the book or other thing, or doing that other act, as the case may be, might tend:

(d)    to incriminate the body (whether in respect of an offence to which the proceeding relates or otherwise); or

(e)    to make the body liable to a penalty (whether in respect of anything to which the proceeding relates or otherwise).

566-20(3)    
Subsection (2) applies whether or not the body concerned is a defendant in the proceeding or in any other proceeding.