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PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1986 - SECT 24ZTA

Requirement to make documents available for inspection

    (1)     A POCTA inspector, with the written approval of the Department Head, may serve a notice on a person requiring the person to produce or make available for inspection a document in the custody or possession of the person which the inspector believes on reasonable grounds to be relevant to determining whether another person has committed an offence against this Act or the regulations.

    (2)     A notice under subsection (1) must—

        (a)     specify a time within which the person must produce or make the document available for inspection that is not less than 14 days after service of the notice; and

        (b)     inform the person that it is an offence to fail to comply with the notice unless subsection (4) applies; and

        (c)     must be served on a person either personally or by registered post at the last known address of that person.

    (3)     The inspector may inspect, take a copy of, or make an extract of, any document produced or made available under subsection (1).

    (4)     A person served with a notice under subsection (1) must comply with the notice within the time for compliance specified in the notice unless, in the case of a natural person, compliance with the notice would tend to incriminate the person.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

    (5)     Section 24ZV(2) does not apply to the requirement to comply with a notice under subsection (1).

S. 24ZU inserted by No. 65/2007 s. 95.



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