Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if an authorised person believes on reasonable grounds that a person has information, or documents providing information, relevant to any of the following matters—
(a) any person's liability to insure as an employer, including liability for premiums;
(b) any person's entitlement to compensation;
(c) any person's entitlement to claim damages;
(d) any offence the authorised person reasonably believes has been committed against this Act.
(2) The authorised person may require the person to give the information or produce for inspection the documents to the authorised person at a reasonable time and place nominated by the authorised person and allow the authorised person to make a copy of the documents.
(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that under subsection (2), an authorised person may require the information to be given, or the documents to be produced immediately, at the place the requirement is made, if the requirement is reasonable in the circumstances.
(4) When making the requirement, the authorised person must warn the person it is an offence to fail to give the information, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
(5) The person must comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
(6) It is a reasonable excuse for a person to fail to give the information or produce the documents that the person would be entitled to refuse to give the information or produce the document in a court proceeding on the ground that giving the information or producing the documents would tend to incriminate the person.
(7) The person does not commit an offence against this section if the information or documents sought by the authorised person are not in fact relevant to a matter mentioned in subsection (1).