Power to require person to answer questions and produce documents
15 Power to require person to answer questions and produce documents
The Secretary or an authorized person may, by notice in writing, in relation to a production unit, require the responsible person appointed for that production unit to attend before him or her at the time and place specified in the notice and there to answer questions and to produce to him or her such documents in relation to the mining, storage, transportation, processing or sale or other disposal of a mineral commodity, including in relation to any relevant transfer pricing, as are referred to in the notice.
The Secretary or an authorized person may make and retain copies of, or extracts from, the documents produced under this section to him or her.
A person is not excused from answering a question or producing documents when required under this section or section 14 so to do, on the ground that the answer to the question, or the production of the documents, might tend to incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty, but the person's answer to any such question is not admissible in evidence against the person in proceedings other than proceedings for an offence against this Act or an offence against or under this or any other law of the Territory in respect of the person's failure to provide information or the person's providing of false information.
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