Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if an inspector becomes aware, or reasonably suspects, that a serious electrical incident or dangerous electrical event has happened at a place.
(2) The inspector may inquire into the circumstances and probable causes of the incident or event.
(3) The inspector may require a person who has knowledge, or whom the inspector reasonably suspects to have knowledge, of the circumstances of the incident or event to give the inspector reasonable help, as stated in the requirement, to inquire under subsection (2).
(4) A requirement under subsection (3) may be given orally or in writing.
(5) A person must comply with a requirement under subsection (3) unless the person has a reasonable excuse for not complying.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(6) If the requirement is to be complied with by the person giving information, or producing a document, other than a document required to be kept by the person under this Act, it is a reasonable excuse for the person, if the person is an individual, to fail to comply with the requirement if complying with the requirement might tend to incriminate the person.