s 421

Power to require production of documents

In force

(1)

An inspector may require a person to produce to the inspector, for inspection, a document this Act requires the person to hold or keep.

(2)

The person must produce the document, unless the person has a reasonable excuse for not producing it.

Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $12 000, or imprisonment for one year, or both.

(3)

The inspector may keep a document that is produced —

(a)

to take an extract from the document; or

(b)

to make a copy of it.

(4)

The inspector must return the document to the person as soon as practicable after taking the extract or making the copy.

[Section 421 amended: No. 7 of 2016 s. 161.]

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