52. Power to require documents or information
Feedback & supportFor the purposes of discharging its functions and duties under this Act, the Authority may, by notice in writing to any person, require the person to produce to the Authority a specified document, or to provide the Authority with specified information, which the Authority considers relates to any matter relevant to such purposes.
The Authority may specify in the notice —
the time and place at which any document is to be produced or any information is to be provided; and (b)the manner and form in which it is to be produced or provided.
The power under this section to require a person to produce a document includes the power —
document
“document” includes —(a)any map, plan, graph or drawing;(b)any photograph;(c)any label, marking or other writing which identifies or describes anything of which it forms a part, or to which it is attached by any means whatsoever;(d)any disc, tape, sound-track or other device in which sounds or other data (not being visual images) are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced therefrom;(e)any film (including microfilm), negative, tape, disc or other device in which one or more visual images are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced therefrom; and(f)any paper or other material on which there are marks, impressions, figures, letters, symbols or perforations having a meaning for persons qualified to interpret them;
if the document is produced —
to take copies of it or extracts from it; and (ii)to require such person, or any person who is a present or past officer of his, or is or was at any time employed by him, to provide an explanation of the document; or (b)if the document is not produced, to require such person to state, to the best of his knowledge and belief, where it is.
In subsection (1), “specified” means —
specified or described in the notice; or (b)falling within a category which is specified or described in the notice.