Veterans' Entitlements (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986

Where the Secretary has reason to believe that a person is capable of furnishing information, producing documents or giving evidence in relation to any matter that might affect, or might have affected, the grant or payment of a pension, allowance or other pecuniary benefit under this Act to that person or any other person, or the provision of treatment under the Regulations for that person or any other person, the Secretary may, by notice, in writing, served on that person, require that person:

to furnish, within the period and in the manner specified in the notice (being a period that ends not less than 14 days after the date of service of the notice), any such information specified in the notice to the officer specified in the notice;

to produce, within the period and in the manner specified in the notice (being a period that ends not less than 14 days after the date of service of the notice), any such documents specified in the notice to the officer specified in the notice; or

to appear on a date, and at a time and place, specified in the notice (being a date not less than 14 days after the date of service of the notice), before the officer specified in the notice, to give any such evidence, either orally or in writing, and to produce any such documents specified in the notice.

The officer specified in a notice given in pursuance of paragraph (1)(c) may require any evidence that is given to the officer in compliance with the notice to be given on oath or affirmation and, for that purpose, the officer may administer an oath or affirmation.

The oath or affirmation to be taken by a person for the purposes of this section is an oath or affirmation that the evidence the person will give will be true.

A person shall not refuse or fail to comply with a notice under subsection (1) to the extent that the person is capable of complying with it.

A person shall not, in purported compliance with a notice under subsection (1), knowingly furnish information or give evidence that is false or misleading in a material particular.

This section binds the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, of each of the States, of the Northern Territory and of Norfolk Island.

This section does not require a person to furnish information, produce a document or give evidence to the extent that, in doing so, the person would contravene a law of the Commonwealth (not being a law of a Territory).