Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00549:section:13c
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00549
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 13C
Character Range: 33299–34809

13C  Failure to comply with disclosure notice

Failure to give information or produce documents in time
 (1) A person contravenes this subsection if:
 (a) the person is given a disclosure notice; and
 (b) the notice requires the person to:
 (i) give information; or
 (ii) produce documents or things;
  of a kind specified in the notice; and
 (c) the person fails to comply with the notice within the period specified in the notice.
Civil penalty: 60 penalty units.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person gives the CEO a statutory declaration stating that:
 (a) the person does not possess the information, document or thing; and
 (b) the person has taken all reasonable steps available to the person to obtain the information, document or thing and has been unable to obtain it.
Note: A person bears an evidential burden in relation to a matter in subsection (2) (see section 96 of the Regulatory Powers Act).

Failure to attend interview
 (3) A person contravenes this subsection if:
 (a) the person is given a disclosure notice; and
 (b) the notice requires the person to attend an interview to answer questions; and
 (c) the person fails to comply with the notice.
Civil penalty: 60 penalty units.

Failure to answer questions
 (4) A person contravenes this subsection if:
 (a) the person is given a disclosure notice; and
 (b) the notice requires the person to attend an interview to answer questions; and
 (c) the person refuses or fails to answer a question.
Civil penalty: 60 penalty units.