Rates Rebate Act 1973

11: Information to be supplied and books and documents to be produced

You could also call this:

"Answer questions honestly and share required documents when applying for a rebate"

When you apply for a rebate under the Rates Rebate Act 1973, you must answer questions truthfully to the best of your knowledge. You will be asked these questions by someone authorised by the Secretary for Local Government. You must also show them any documents or information they need to see to process your application.

If you have information that you are not allowed to share due to another law or rule, you do not have to tell them. This means you do not have to answer questions or show documents that would make you break a secrecy rule.

You have to be honest and help with your application, but you can keep secrets that you are supposed to keep.

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10: Recovery of overpayments, or

"Paying back rates rebates you shouldn't have got"

11A: Advice of Secretary for Local Government as to applications for rebates or refunds, or

"The Secretary for Local Government helps councils with rate rebate applications"

11Information to be supplied and books and documents to be produced

Subject to subsection (2), it shall be the duty of every person to answer fully and correctly to the best of his knowledge and belief all questions in respect of any application for a rebate under this Act or any other matter arising under this Act put to him by any person authorised for the purpose by the Secretary for Local Government, and to produce for the inspection of any person so authorised such certificates, books, documents, or other information as he may require for the purposes of this Act.
No person who is bound or privileged by the provisions of any enactment, or by any rule or law, to maintain secrecy in relation to, or not to disclose, any matter shall be required to supply any information or to answer any question put by a person authorised pursuant to subsection (1) in relation to that matter, or produce to any person so authorised any document or paper or thing relating to it, if compliance with that requirement would be any breach of the obligation or privilege of secrecy or non-disclosure.