INDEPENDENT PRICING AND REGULATORY TRIBUNAL ACT 1992 - SECT 22 Tendering information, documents and evidence

INDEPENDENT PRICING AND REGULATORY TRIBUNAL ACT 1992 - SECT 22

22 Tendering information, documents and evidence

(1) For the purposes of an investigation, the Chairperson may, by notice in writing served on an officer of a government agency or on any other person, require the officer or other person to do any one or more of the following--

(a) to send to the Tribunal, on or before a day specified in the notice, a statement setting out such information as is so specified,

(b) to send to the Tribunal, on or before a day specified in the notice, such documents as are so specified,

(c) to attend at a hearing before the Tribunal to give evidence.

(2) If documents are given to the Tribunal under this section, the Tribunal--

(a) may take possession of, and make copies of or take extracts from, the documents, and

(b) may keep possession of the documents for such period as is necessary for the purposes of the investigation to which they relate, and

(c) during that period must permit them to be inspected at all reasonable times by persons who would be entitled to inspect them if they were not in the possession of the Tribunal.

(3) A person (not being an officer of a government agency) who attends at a hearing because of a notice under this section is entitled to be paid by the State such allowances and expenses as are prescribed by the regulations or (subject to the regulations) as are approved by the Treasurer.