Section 9
Powers of Commissioner and investigating officers
of Retirement and Re-employment Act 1993
(1)
The Commissioner or any investigating officer has, for the purposes of this Act, power to do all or any of the following:
enter without previous notice at any reasonable time any place of employment for the purposes of conducting any audit which is deemed necessary by the Minister, or make such inquiry into the terms and conditions of employment of any employee as the Commissioner or investigating officer thinks fit;
examine orally any person supposed to be acquainted with the facts and circumstances relevant to the carrying out of the provisions of this Act, and reduce into writing the answer given or statement made by the person who is bound to state truly the facts and circumstances with which the person is acquainted, and the statement made by the person must be read over to him or her and must, after correction, be signed by the person;
require the employer to produce before the Commissioner or investigating officer any other employee employed by the employer together with any contract of service or other document concerning the employment;
make copies of any document required to be produced under paragraph (c);
take or remove for purposes of investigations any document;
take such photographs or audio or video recording, as the Commissioner or investigating officer thinks necessary, of the premises and persons reasonably believed to be acquainted with the facts and circumstances relevant to the carrying out of the provisions of this Act;
require any person to produce any article which is relevant to any investigation carried out under this Act and, if necessary, to take into custody any such article.
(2)
Any person who hinders or obstructs an investigating officer in the exercise of the power under this section or makes to an investigating officer exercising the power under this section a statement either orally or in writing which is false in any material particular shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.