Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00039:section:23
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00039
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 23
Character Range: 25400–26249

23  Penalty for refusing to give evidence
 (1) Where the Commission takes evidence in the course of inquiry into a matter, a person appearing as a witness before the Commission shall not, without lawful excuse, refuse or fail to answer a question, being a question relevant to the inquiry, that is put to the person by the Commission.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
 (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a question shall be deemed to have been put to a witness by the Commission:
 (a) if it is put by any of the members who are exercising the powers of the Commission in relation to the matter; or
 (b) if, with the approval of a majority of the members who are exercising the powers of the Commission in relation to the matter, it is put by a person authorized by a majority of those members to appear in connexion with the taking of the evidence.