Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The lawyer of a person making a disclosure to ASIC pursuant to a requirement made under this Division may be present during the disclosure and may, at such times during it as the representative of ASIC presiding at the meeting during which the disclosure is made determines, address the representatives of ASIC about the disclosure.
(2) If, in the presiding representative's opinion, a person is trying to obstruct the disclosure by exercising rights under subsection (1), the presiding representative may require the person to stop addressing the representatives of ASIC.
Note: Failure to comply with a requirement made under this subsection is an offence (see section 63).
(3) An offence under subsection 63(4) relating to subsection (2) of this section is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .