Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act 2003 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3A · Investigation Powers
20. Power to require documents, articles or information
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The Commission may, by written notice to a supplier mentioned in section 19(1)(a) or a person mentioned in section 19(1)(b) (called in this Part the person under investigation), require the person under investigation to produce to the Commission a specified document or article, or to provide the Commission with specified information, which the Commission considers to be relevant to an investigation mentioned in section 19(1).
Commission
“Commission” means the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore established by section 3 of the Competition Act 2004;
A notice under subsection (1) must —
indicate the purpose for which the specified document or article or specified information is required by the Commission; and
be accompanied by a copy of the offences under sections 27, 28, 29 and 30.
The Commission may also specify in the notice —
the time and place at which the specified document or article is to be produced or specified information is to be provided; and
the manner and form in which the specified document or article or specified information is to be produced or provided.
The power under this section to require a person under investigation to produce a document includes the power —
if the document is produced —
to take copies of, or extracts from, the document; and
to require that person under investigation, or any other person who is a present or past officer of that person under investigation, or is or was at any time employed by that person under investigation, to provide an explanation of the document; or
if the document is not produced, to require the person under investigation or the other person mentioned in paragraph (a)(ii) to state, to the best of that person’s knowledge and belief, where the document is.
In subsection (1), “specified” means —
specified or described in the notice; or
falling in a category which is specified or described in the notice.[12H