New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board v Master & Sons Ltd - [1986] 1 NZLR 191

Evidence — Defences — Privilege against self-incrimination — Respondent company refused to allow an official from the Apple and Pear Marketing Board to inspect the apples in its cooler — Whether the common law privilege against self-incrimination was excluded by legislation with regard to the production of objects for inspection — Whether a plea of self — incrimination was available to corporations — Apple and Pear Marketing Regulations 1975, reg 9 — Apple and Pear Marketing Act 1971, s 45.