Civil Defence Shelter and Fire Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2026 · s 29

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s 29Amendment of section 108

In the FS Act, in section 108, replace subsection (2) with —“(2) The power to require a person to provide any document, record or information under subsection (1) includes the power —

(a)

to require that person to provide an explanation of the document, record or information;

(b)

if the document, record or information is not provided, to require that person to state, to the best of that person’s knowledge and belief, where it is;

(c)

to retain the original copy of the document or record, or to copy or make extracts from the document or record; and

(d)

if the information is recorded otherwise than in legible form, to require the information to be made available to the Commissioner or authorised officer in legible form.”.