Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00129:section:57
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00129
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 57
Character Range: 196025–196905

57  Offence—refusal or failure to comply with requirement
 (1) A person must not refuse or fail to comply with a requirement under section 55 or 55A to give information or produce a document.
Penalty: 30 penalty units.
Note: If a body corporate is convicted of an offence against this subsection, subsection 4B(3) of the Crimes Act 1914 allows a court to impose a fine of up to 5 times the penalty stated above.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in this subsection: see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code.
 (3) It is a reasonable excuse for an individual to refuse or fail to give information or produce a document on the ground that to do so might tend to incriminate the individual or expose the individual to a penalty.

Division 3—Interaction with other laws