NATIONAL CRIME AUTHORITY ACT 1984 No. 41, 1984 - SECT 29 Power to obtain documents

NATIONAL CRIME AUTHORITY ACT 1984 No. 41, 1984 - SECT 29

29. (1) A member or acting member may, by notice in writing served on a
person, require the person-

   (a)  to attend, at a time and place specified in the notice, before a
        person specified in the notice, being a member or acting member of the
        Authority or a member of the staff of the Authority; and

   (b)  to produce at that time and place to the person so specified a
        document or thing specified in the notice, being a document or thing
        that is relevant to a special investigation.

(2) A notice may be issued under this section in relation to a special
investigation whether or not a hearing before the Authority is being held for
the purposes of the investigation.

(3) A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply
with a notice served on him under this section.
Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months.

(4) Sub-sections 30 (3) to (10), inclusive, apply in relation to a person who
is required to produce a document or thing by a notice served on him under
this section in the same manner as they apply in relation to a person who is
required to produce a document or thing at a hearing before the Authority and
so apply as if a reference in those sub-sections to sub-section 30 (2) were a
reference to sub-section (3) of this section.

(5) If a person who is required to produce a document or thing by a notice
served on him under this section claims to the person (in this sub-section
referred to as the "relevant person") to whom he is required to produce it
that he is entitled to refuse to produce the document or thing, the relevant
person shall-

   (a)  if he is satisfied that the claim is justified-inform the claimant
        that the requirement will not be insisted upon; or

   (b)  in any other case-inform the claimant that he is not so satisfied and,
        if the document or thing is not produced forthwith, refer the claim to
        the Authority for decision under section 32.