ENERGY AND UTILITIES ADMINISTRATION ACT 1987 - SECT 40
Persons may be required to furnish information
ENERGY AND UTILITIES ADMINISTRATION ACT 1987 - SECT 40
Persons may be required to furnish information
40 Persons may be required to furnish information
(1) The Corporation may, by notice in writing, require any person to furnish
to it such information in connection with any matter relating to its functions
as may be specified in the notice.
(1A) The Minister may, by notice in
writing, require a water or energy service provider to furnish to the Minister
such information concerning such of the following matters as may be specified
in the notice--
(b) the
identity of the persons or bodies to which the provider provides an
energy service,
(c) the amount of water or energy that is provided to any
such persons or bodies by the provider.
(2) A person shall not neglect or
fail to comply with a requirement under this section.
: Maximum penalty--10
penalty units.
(3) Information furnished pursuant to such a requirement is
not, if the person furnishing it objected, at the time, to doing so on the
ground that it might tend to incriminate the person, admissible in evidence in
any prosecution against the person for an offence (not being an offence under
this section).
(4) Compliance with a requirement under this section to
furnish information is not to be regarded as--
(a) a breach of contract or
confidence or otherwise as a civil wrong, or
(b) a breach of any instrument,
or
(c) an event of default under any contract or other instrument, or
(d)
giving rise to any remedy by a party to a contract or other instrument, or as
causing or permitting the termination of, or exercise of rights under, any
contract or other instrument.
(5) In this section--
"water or energy service provider" means any of the following--
(c) any other person or body (or person or body
belonging to a class of persons or bodies) prescribed by a savings order that
provides a water service or energy service.
