Clause 30

The Board may require any person by or on whose behalf goods have been, or are in the course of being, or are about to be, imported, exported, carried coastwise, shipped as ships’ stores, carried as aircraft stores, or transhipped, or any person who is or has been concerned or interested in those goods or in their importation, exportation, carriage coastwise, shipment as ships’ stores, carriage as aircraft stores or transhipment, to produce such documents and furnish such information as the Board may consider necessary for the effective exercise of its powers and performance of its duties under this Act or any regulations made thereunder.

Any such requisition under subsection (1) may be made verbally or in writing or by an electronic notice served on the person to whom it is addressed.

Every person required to produce any document or furnish any information shall produce the document or furnish the information in such form and manner and within such time as may be specified in the requisition or if no time is so stated within a reasonable time.

Any person who fails without lawful excuse to comply with any requisition under this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $6,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

Any information given in compliance with this section may be admissible in evidence as proof against the person giving the information or his principal in any prosecution, notwithstanding that it may tend to incriminate one or the other.