Singapore legislation

Clause 19

Amendment of section 35

Section 35 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:“(1) For the purposes of administering or enforcing this Part or determining whether this Part has been complied with, an authorised officer may (in connection with section 33 or otherwise) —

(a)

require any person to furnish to the authorised officer any information within the knowledge of that person; and

(b)

require any person to produce to the authorised officer any document in the person’s custody or under the person’s control in connection with the matter.(1A) The authorised officer may —

(a)

specify a time and place at which a person must furnish the information or produce the document under subsection (1); and

(b)

without payment —

(i)

inspect, keep, copy, or make extracts from, a document produced or made available to the authorised officer under this section; and

(ii)

in relation to a document kept in electronic form, inspect, copy, or make extracts from, the document in legible form.(1B) Where a document is kept in electronic form, the power of the authorised officer to require the document to be produced includes the power to require the document to be made available to the authorised officer in legible form.(1C) To avoid doubt and without affecting the generality of subsection (1), that subsection applies to a person who supplies any energy‑consuming system prescribed under section 26B, or any equipment relating to such system, or both, in respect of information and documents relating to such supplies.”.

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