Commonwealth Numbered Acts

INDUSTRY COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 9 of 1990 - SECT 18

18. (1) The Chairperson, or the Commissioner nominated to preside at the
hearing concerned, may summon a person in writing to appear at a hearing to
give evidence and to produce such documents as are specified in the summons.

(2) Where a person has been served with a summons to appear at a hearing, the
Chairperson, or the Commissioner nominated to preside at the hearing, may, at
any time before the person has so appeared, direct the person in writing to
send to the Commission, on or before a day specified in the direction:

   (a)  a statement, signed by the person, setting out such information as is
        so specified; and

   (b)  such documents as are specified in the summons; and, if such a
        direction is served on the person, a prosecution for an offence
        against section 19 or 20 must not be brought against the person in
        relation to the summons.

(3) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply
with a direction under subsection (2).
Penalty: Imprisonment for 6 months or the corresponding fine fixed by
section 4B of the Crimes Act 1914.

(4) It is a reasonable excuse for the purposes of subsection (3) that to send
a statement or document to the Commission might tend to incriminate the person
or make the person liable to forfeiture or a penalty.