Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(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.