Singapore legislation
Section 82
Section 82
Power to obtain information
(1)
The Authority or an authorised officer may, by written notice, require any airport licensee or other person to provide, within a reasonable period specified in the notice, and in such form and manner as may be specified in the notice, all documents and information relating to any matter which the Authority considers necessary to carry out the functions or duties of or assigned to the Authority by or under any provision of this Act, which are within the knowledge of that person or in that person’s custody or under that person’s control.
(2)
The power to require a person to provide any document or information under subsection (1) includes the power —
to require that person, or any person who is or was an officer or employee of that person, to provide an explanation of the document or information;
if the document or information is not provided, to require that person to state, to the best of that person’s knowledge and belief, where it is; and
if the information is recorded otherwise than in legible form, to require the information to be made available to the Authority in legible form.
(3)
Any person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to do anything required of the person by notice under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.
(4)
Any person who —
intentionally alters, suppresses or destroys any document or information which the person has been required by a notice under subsection (1) to provide; or
in providing any document or information required under subsection (1), makes any statement which the person knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes such a statement,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
(5)
If any person fails to comply with a notice under subsection (1), the court may, on the application of the Authority, make such order as the court thinks fit to secure compliance with the notice and any such order may provide that all the costs or expenses of and incidental to the application must be borne by such person or by any officer of a company or other association who is responsible for the failure.
(6)
The Authority through an authorised officer may, at any time after the expiry of the period specified in the notice mentioned in subsection (1), enter any building or place where the Authority has reason to believe that any document or information, in respect of which it has given the notice, may be found, and seize or take extracts or copies of any such document or information.
(7)
The Authority is entitled without payment to keep any document or information, or any copy or extract thereof, provided to it under subsection (1) or obtained under subsection (6).
(8)
Every authorised officer acting under this section is deemed to be a public servant for the purposes of the Penal Code 1871.