Section 1316A — Corporations Act 2001: Privilege against self-incrimination not available to bodies corporate in Corporations Act criminal proceedings

(1) In a Corporations Act criminal proceeding, a body corporate is not entitled to refuse or fail to comply with a requirement: (a) to answer a question or give information; or (b) to produce a book or any other thing; or (c) to do any other act whatever; on the ground that the answer or information, production of the book or other thing, or doing that other act, as the case may be, might tend: (d) to incriminate the body (whether in respect of an offence to which the proceeding relates or otherwise); or (e) to make the body liable to a penalty (whether in respect of anything to which the proceeding relates or otherwise). (2) Subsection (1) applies whether or not the body concerned is a defendant in the proceeding or in any other proceeding. (3) In this section: Corporations Act criminal proceeding means a proceeding in a court when exercising jurisdiction in respect of a criminal matter arising under this Act.