Statutory Notice Requiring Information

In Moosawi v Massey [2015] QSC 169, the Supreme Court
considered whether s. 228 of the Health Ombudsman Act 2013 was
sufficient to authorise a notice which required a person to attend a stated
place and give verbal responses during interview.

Section 228 gives authorised persons a general power
to require a person, by notice given to the person, to give information at a
stated reasonable place and time.  That provision does not give authorised
persons any express power to compel a person to attend an interview.

The notice was declared void because it was not authorised
by s. 228. 

Many other statutes contain only general powers to
require a person to give information. Crown Law can advise on the use of
those powers and the prospects of defending an application like the application
in Moosawi v Massey.