Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003

This section applies if an authorised person reasonably believes that a person has information, or documents providing information, relevant to any of the following matters—

any person’s liability to insure as an employer, including liability for premiums;

any person’s entitlement to compensation;

any person’s entitlement to claim damages;

any contravention of this Act the authorised person reasonably believes has been committed.

The authorised person may require the person to give the information or produce for inspection the documents to the authorised person at a reasonable time and place nominated by the authorised person and allow the authorised person to make a copy of the documents.

To remove any doubt, it is declared that under subsection (2), an authorised person may require the information to be given, or the documents to be produced immediately, at the place the requirement is made, if the requirement is reasonable in the circumstances.

When making a requirement under subsection (2), the authorised person must give the person an offence warning for the requirement.

The person must comply with a requirement under subsection (2), unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

It is a reasonable excuse for an individual not to comply with a requirement under subsection (2) if complying might tend to incriminate the individual or expose the individual to a penalty.

The person does not commit an offence against this section if the information or documents sought by the authorised person are not in fact relevant to a matter mentioned in subsection (1).