Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An inspector may give the owner of land that is infested with a pest a notice (an information notice) for the land.
(2) The information notice may require the owner to give the inspector the following information about each crop plant growing on the land--
(a) the genus, species, variety and type or class of the crop plant;
(b) when the crop plant was planted on the land;
(c) the source of the crop plant;
(d) other information stated in the notice, if the inspector considers the information to be reasonably necessary for the prevention, control or removal of pest infestation of plants under this Act.
(3) An inspector may give the owner of a harvested crop that is infested with a pest a notice (also an information notice) for the crop.
(4) The information notice may require the owner to give the inspector the following information about the crop--
(a) the genus, species, variety and type or class of the crop plants for the crop;
(b) when the crop was harvested;
(c) the source of the crop plants for the crop;
(d) where the crop has been moved to;
(e) other information stated in the notice, if the inspector considers the information to be reasonably necessary for the prevention, control or removal of pest infestation of plants under this Act.
(5) A person to whom an information notice is given under this section must comply with the notice unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty--400 penalty units.
(6) When giving a person an information notice under this section, the inspector must warn the person that it is an offence not to comply with the notice if the person does not have a reasonable excuse.
(7) It is not a reasonable excuse for a person to fail to comply with an information notice under this section that complying with the notice might incriminate the person.
(8) If an individual complies with an information notice, evidence of, or evidence directly or indirectly derived from, the information given that might tend to incriminate the individual is not admissible in evidence against the individual in a civil or criminal proceeding, other than a proceeding for an offence for which the falsity or misleading nature of the information given is relevant.