Witnesses
25 Witnesses
For the performance of adult guardian functions, the public guardian may, by written notice given to a person, require the person to attend before the public guardian at a stated time and place to give information and answer questions, or produce stated documents or things.
The person must comply with the notice, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Note—
See section 28 (Self-incrimination not a reasonable excuse).
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
The public guardian may—
require the person to take an oath; and
administer an oath to the person, or, if technology allowing reasonably contemporaneous and continuous communication is to be used, make the arrangements the public guardian considers appropriate in the circumstances for administering an oath to the person; and
allow the person to give information by tendering a written statement, verified, if the public guardian directs, by oath.
The person must comply with a requirement under subsection (3)(a), unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
The person is entitled to be paid by the public guardian an amount equivalent to the amount the person would receive under the Court Fees and Allowances Regulation if the person’s attendance before the public guardian were attendance in a Magistrates Court as a witness.
In this section—
Court Fees and Allowances Regulation means a regulation made under the Supreme Court of Queensland Act 1991 providing for the fees and allowances payable to witnesses attending before a court.
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