Broadcasting Services Act 1992

This section applies to a person who:

is a media content service provider; or

is a related body corporate of a media content service provider;

the ACMA has reason to believe that the person has information or a document that is relevant to:

monitoring compliance with this Part; or

the performance of the ACMA’s functions under paragraph 10(1)(a), (e), (n) or (q) of the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005.

The ACMA may, by written notice given to the person, require the person to do any of the following:

to give to the ACMA, within the period and in the manner and form specified in the notice, any such information;

to produce to the ACMA, within the period and in the manner specified in the notice, any such documents;

to make copies of any such documents and to produce to the ACMA, within the period and in the manner specified in the notice, those copies.

A person must comply with a requirement under subsection (2).

Subsection (3) is a civil penalty provision.

A person who contravenes subsection (3) commits a separate contravention of that subsection in respect of each day (including a day of the making of a relevant civil penalty order or any subsequent day) during which the contravention continues.

Subsection (3) is a designated infringement notice provision.

A period specified under paragraph (2)(a), (b) or (c) must not be shorter than 14 days after the notice is given.