THE CORPORATIONS LAW

CHAPTER 5 - EXTERNAL ADMINISTRATION

PART 5.9 - MISCELLANEOUS

Division 1 - Examining a person about a corporation

SECTION 596F   COURT MAY GIVE DIRECTIONS ABOUT EXAMINATION  

596F(1)  [Directions that Court may give]  

Subject to section 597, the Court may at any time give one or more of the following:

(a)  a direction about the matters to be inquired into at an examination;

(b)  a direction about the procedure to be followed at an examination;

(c)  a direction about who may be present at an examination while it is being held in private;

(d)  a direction that a person be excluded from an examination, even while it is being held in public;

(e)  a direction about access to records of the examination;

(f)  a direction prohibiting publication or communication of information about the examination (including questions asked, and answers given, at the examination);

(g)  a direction that a document that relates to the examination and was created at the examination be destroyed.

596F(2)  [Effect of public examination]  

The Court may give a direction under paragraph (1)(e), (f) or (g) in relation to all or part of an examination even if the examination, or that part, was held in public.

596F(3)  [Contravention]  

A person must not contravene a direction under subsection (1).