Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185:section:1316a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1316A
Character Range: 5483900–5484953

1316A  Privilege against self‑incrimination not available to bodies corporate in Corporations Act criminal proceedings
 (1) In a Corporations Act criminal 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).
 (2) Subsection (1) applies whether or not the body concerned is a defendant in the proceeding or in any other proceeding.
 (3) In this section:
Corporations Act criminal proceeding means a proceeding in a court when exercising jurisdiction in respect of a criminal matter arising under this Act.