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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

Regulation of immigration advisers - Offences

70B: Offence to fail to comply with summons

You could also call this:

“You can get in trouble if you don't show up when the Tribunal calls you”

You can get in trouble if you don’t follow the rules when the Tribunal asks you to come and give evidence or bring documents. Here’s what you need to know:

If the Tribunal asks you to come, you must go. You can’t refuse to speak or answer questions when you’re there. You also have to bring any papers or things they ask for.

You’re not allowed to make it hard for the Tribunal to do their job. This means you can’t stop them from looking at papers or things they need to see.

If you break these rules, you might have to pay a fine of up to $1,000.

But don’t worry - if they ask you to come, they have to pay you some money first. This is to help cover your costs for going to the Tribunal.

Remember, these rules are there to make sure the Tribunal can do its job properly and fairly.

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Part 1 Regulation of immigration advisers
Offences

70BOffence to fail to comply with summons

  1. A person commits an offence who, after being summoned to attend to give evidence before the Tribunal or to produce to it any books, papers, documents, records, or things, without sufficient cause,—

  2. fails to attend in accordance with the summons; or
    1. refuses to be sworn or to give evidence, or having been sworn refuses to answer any question that the person is lawfully required by the Tribunal or any member of it to answer concerning the subject of the inquiry; or
      1. fails to produce any such paper, document, record, or thing.

        1. A person commits an offence if the person—

        2. wilfully obstructs or hinders the Tribunal or any member of it or any authorised person in any inspection or examination of papers, documents, records, or things; or
          1. without sufficient cause, fails to comply with any requirement of the Tribunal or any authorised person made under clause 6(3) of the Schedule.

            1. A person who commits an offence against this section is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.

            2. No person summoned to attend the inquiry may be convicted of an offence against subsection (1) unless at the time of the service of the summons, or at some other reasonable time before the date on which that person was required to attend, there was made to that person a payment or tender of the amount fixed in accordance with clause 7 of the Schedule.

            Notes
            • Section 70B: inserted, on , by section 112 of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).