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AUSTRALIAN SMALL BUSINESS AND FAMILY ENTERPRISE OMBUDSMAN ACT 2015 - SECT 49

Refusal to answer questions or produce documents

  (1)   A person appearing as a witness at a hearing must not refuse or fail:

  (a)   to answer a question as required by the Ombudsman; or

  (b)   to produce a document as required by a summons served on the person under section   48.

Penalty:   30 penalty units.

  (2)   A person is not subject to a requirement under subsection   (1) if:

  (a)   the person does not have the information or document required; and

  (b)   the person has taken all reasonable steps available to the person to obtain the information or document required and has been unable to obtain it.


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