(1) This section applies to the following matters:
(a) whether a person should
be or continue to be registered under this Act,
(b) whether a permit should
be granted or revoked under this Act,
(c) an application for approval of a
body as an approved amateur body under this Act,
(d) the investigation of
whether a provision of this Act or the regulations or rules or a condition of
a registration or permit or approval under this Act has been contravened,
(h) any other person the Authority
has reasonable cause to believe may have relevant information about a matter
to which this section applies.
(3) The Authority may, by written notice given
to a person, require the person within the period specified in the notice (not
being less than 14 days after the notice is given) to do one or more of the
following:
(a) provide, in accordance with directions in the notice, such
information as, in the opinion of the Authority, is relevant to a matter to
which this section applies,
(b) produce, in accordance with directions in the
notice, such records as, in the opinion of the Authority, are relevant to any
such matter and are specified in the notice,
(c) permit the examination of
any such records, the taking of extracts from them and the making of copies of
them,
(d) authorise a person described in the notice to comply with a
requirement specified in this section,
(e) furnish to the Authority such
authorisations and consents as the Authority requires for the purpose of
obtaining information about any such matter (including financial and other
confidential information).
(4) A notice under this section must not require a
medical practitioner or a qualified person to disclose health information
about a person unless the information relates to the exercise by the medical
practitioner or qualified person of functions under this Act in relation to
the person.
(5) A notice given to a person under this section must warn the
person that failure to comply with the notice, without reasonable excuse,
would constitute an offence.
(6) It is not an offence for a person to refuse
to provide information or a document under this section on the ground that the
information or document might tend to incriminate him or her, unless he or she
was first given the warning in subsection (5).