Reasonable assistance to be provided
149T Reasonable assistance to be provided
An authorised fire officer who enters any premises under this part may require any person having responsibilities in relation to the premises (whether as owner or occupier of the premises or as a person employed to work thereon or otherwise) to provide the officer with such facilities and assistance with respect to matters or things to which the person’s responsibilities extend as are reasonably necessary to enable the officer to exercise the powers conferred upon the officer by this Act.
A person who is required to provide facilities and assistance to an authorised fire officer under subsection (1) must comply with the requirement unless the person has a reasonable excuse.Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.
It is not a reasonable excuse for the person to fail to comply with the requirement that complying with it might tend to incriminate the person.
However, if—
the person is an individual; and
the requirement is to give information or produce a document;
evidence of, or evidence directly or indirectly derived from, the information or document that might tend to incriminate the person is not admissible in evidence against the person in a civil or criminal proceeding, other than a proceeding for an offence about the falsity or misleading nature of the information or document.
If a person is convicted of an offence against subsection (2), the court may, as well as imposing a penalty for the offence, order the person to comply with the requirement.
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