Requiring documents relating to goods to be produced
127 Requiring documents relating to goods to be produced
A biosecurity officer may require a person who the biosecurity officer suspects, on reasonable grounds, has the custody or control of documents in relation to the goods to produce to the biosecurity officer such of those documents as are specified by the biosecurity officer.
A person may commit an offence or contravene a civil penalty provision if the person provides false or misleading documents (see section 137.2 of the Criminal Code and section 533 of this Act).
A biosecurity officer:
may make copies of, or take extracts from, a document produced under subsection (1); and
for that purpose, may remove the document from the place at which it was produced.
Civil penalty provision
A person who is required to produce documents under subsection (1) must comply with the requirement.
Civil penalty: 300 penalty units.
This section is not subject to the privilege against self‑incrimination (see section 635).
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