HERITAGE ACT 2004 - SECT 95 Information discovery order
HERITAGE ACT 2004 - SECT 95
Information discovery order(1) This section applies if the council has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person—
(a) has information (the required information ) reasonably required by the council for the administration or enforcement of this Act; or
(b) has possession or control of a document containing the required information.
(2) The council may give the person an order (an information discovery order ) requiring the person to give the information, or produce the document, to the council.
(3) The information discovery order must be in writing and must include particulars of the following:
(a) the identity of the person to whom it is given;
(b) why the information is required;
(c) the time by which the order must be complied with;
(d) the operation of section 96.
(4) A person does not incur any civil or criminal liability only because the person gives information, or produces a document, to the council in accordance with an information discovery order.
(5) The council must return a document produced in accordance with an information discovery order to the person who produced the document as soon as practicable.