Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00174:section:82
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00174
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 82
Character Range: 278560–279550

82  Information Commissioner investigations—obliging persons to appear

Notice to require person to appear
 (1) The Information Commissioner may, by written notice, require a person to appear before the Information Commissioner to answer questions for the purposes of an investigation.
 (2) The notice must:
 (a) be in writing; and
 (b) state that the person must comply with the notice at a specified time that is not less than 14 days after the time at which the person is given the notice; and
 (c) specify the place at which the person must comply with the notice.

Offence for failure to comply
 (3) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person is subject to a requirement specified in a notice under subsection (1); and
 (b) the person engages in conduct; and
 (c) the person's conduct breaches the requirement.
Penalty for a contravention of this subsection: 6 months imprisonment.
Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.