Royal Commissions Act 1902

It is not a reasonable excuse for the purposes of subsection 3(2B) or (5), or section 6AB, for a natural person to refuse or fail to produce a document or other thing on the ground that the production of the document or other thing might tend to:

incriminate the person; or

make the person liable to a penalty.

It is not a reasonable excuse for the purposes of subsection 3(6B) for a natural person to refuse or fail to give information or a statement that the person is required to give under subsection 2(3C) on the ground that giving the information or statement might tend to:

incriminate the person; or

make the person liable to a penalty.

A natural person is not excused from answering a question that the person is required to answer by a member of a Commission on the ground that answering the question might tend to:

incriminate the person; or

make the person liable to a penalty.

Subsections (1), (1A) and (2) do not apply to the production of a document or other thing, the answer to a question or the giving of information or a statement if:

the production, answer, information or statement might tend to incriminate the person in relation to an offence; and

the person has been charged with that offence; and

the charge has not been finally dealt with by a court or otherwise disposed of.

Subsections (1), (1A) and (2) do not apply to the production of a document or other thing, the answer to a question or the giving of information or a statement if:

the production, answer, information or statement might tend to make the person liable to a penalty; and

proceedings in respect of the penalty have commenced; and

those proceedings have not been finally dealt with by a court or otherwise disposed of.