South Australian Numbered Acts

CRIMINAL ASSETS CONFISCATION ACT 2005 (NO 19 OF 2005) - SECT 144

144—Offences relating to appearance at an examination

        (1)         A person attending an examination to answer questions or produce documents must not—

            (a)         refuse or fail to be sworn; or

            (b)         refuse or fail to answer a question that the DPP requires the person to answer; or

            (c)         refuse or fail to produce at the examination a document specified in the examination notice that required the person’s attendance; or

            (d)         leave the examination before being excused by the DPP.

Maximum penalty: $2 500 or imprisonment for 6 months.

        (2)         Subsection (1)(c) does not apply if the person complied with the notice in relation to production of the document to the extent that it was practicable to do so.