New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHARITABLE FUNDRAISING ACT 1991 - SECT 27

27 Power of Minister to require accounts etc

(1) For the purposes of any inquiry under this Part, the Minister or an authorised inspector may require any person to do any one or more of the following:

(a) to furnish accounts and statements in writing with respect to any matter in question at the inquiry, being a matter about which the person has or can reasonably obtain information,

(b) to provide answers in writing to any questions addressed to the person on any such matter,

(c) to verify any such account, statement or answer by statutory declaration,

(d) to attend at a specified time and place and give evidence or produce documents in the person’s custody or under the person’s control which relate to any matter in question at the inquiry,

(e) to furnish copies of or extracts from any document in the person’s custody or under the person’s control which relates to any matter in question at the inquiry or to make any such document available for inspection.

(2) Any requirement under this section is to be made by notice in writing served on the person concerned and specifying a reasonable time within which the requirement is to be complied with.

(3) For the purposes of any inquiry under this Part, evidence may be taken on oath and the person conducting the inquiry may for that purpose administer oaths.

(4) The person conducting the inquiry may take possession of documents produced to the person for such period as the person considers necessary for the purposes of the inquiry and may make copies of or take extracts from them. During that period the person conducting the inquiry must permit a person who would be entitled to inspect any one or more of those documents if they were not in the possession of the person conducting the inquiry to inspect at all reasonable times such of those documents as that person would be entitled to inspect.