Queensland Consolidated Acts

MOTOR ACCIDENT INSURANCE ACT 1994 - SECT 79

(1) An officer is not excused from--

(a) answering a question put to the officer by an investigator; or

(b) producing a document to an investigator;

on the ground that the answer or production of the document might tend to incriminate the officer.

(2) Before an investigator requires an officer to answer a question or to produce a document, the investigator must inform the officer--

(a) of the officer's right to assert that answering the question or production of the document might tend to incriminate the officer; and

(b) of the effect under subsection (3) of making the assertion.

(3) Neither the answer, nor the fact that the officer has produced the document, is admissible in evidence against the officer in a criminal proceeding (other than a proceeding about the falsity of the answer or document) if--

(a) before answering the question or producing the document, the officer asserts that answering the question or production of the document might tend to incriminate the officer; and

(b) answering the question or production of the document might in fact tend to incriminate the officer.