Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 598

598 Offence to contravene information requirement

(1) A person of whom an information requirement is made must comply with the requirement unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(2) It is a reasonable excuse for an individual not to give the information if giving the information might tend to incriminate the individual or expose the individual to a penalty.

(3) However, subsection (2) does not apply if information the subject of the information requirement is required to be held or kept under this Act.

(4) In this section—

"information" includes a document.