Obstruction
19 Obstruction
A person must not —
without reasonable excuse, obstruct, hinder, or interfere with an authorised person lawfully acting under this Act; or
fail, without reasonable excuse, to answer any question put to that person for the purposes of this Act by an authorised person or give a false or misleading answer to any such question, or refuse to make a statutory declaration that the person is required under this Act to make; or
use any threat to an authorised person lawfully acting under this Act; or
fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply in any respect with a lawful request, requirement or direction given by an authorised person.
Penalty: $5 000.
A statement made in response to a requirement made under this Act is not admissible in evidence in a prosecution against the person for an offence, other than an offence under this section, if the person making the statement objected to doing so at the time he or she made the statement on the ground that it might tend to incriminate that person.
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