Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if the chief executive receives a complaint about a possible contravention of this Act.
(2) The chief executive may, by notice given to a relevant person, require the relevant person to—
(a) give to the chief executive, within a stated reasonable time and in a stated reasonable way, information in the person's knowledge about a stated matter relating to the incorporated association; or
(b) give to the chief executive, within a stated reasonable time and in a stated reasonable way, a document in the person's possession or control about a stated matter relating to the incorporated association.
(3) When making the requirement, the chief executive must warn the person it is an offence to fail to give the information, or produce the document, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
(4) The person must comply with a requirement under subsection (2), unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(5) It is a reasonable excuse for an individual to fail to comply with the requirement if complying with the requirement might tend to incriminate the individual.
(6) In this section—
relevant person, in relation to a complaint, means—
(a) a person who is, or was, a member of the management committee; or
(b) a person who is, or was, an auditor, an accountant or an approved person who the chief executive believes, on grounds that are reasonable in the circumstances, has information or documents relevant to the matter of the complaint.