Offence to contravene certification requirement
117 Offence to contravene certification requirement
A person of whom a certification requirement is made must comply with the requirement unless the person has a reasonable excuse.Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.
It is a reasonable excuse for an individual not to comply with a certification requirement if complying might tend to incriminate the individual or expose the individual to a penalty.
When making a certification requirement, the authorised officer must give the person an offence warning for the requirement.
If a person fails to comply with a certification requirement when the authorised officer has failed to give the person an offence warning under subsection (3), the person may not be convicted of the offence against subsection (1).
In this section—
certification requirement means a requirement under section 115(3).
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