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PLANTATIONS AND REAFFORESTATION ACT 1999 - SECT 61
Investigations into compliance with this Act or Code
61 Investigations into compliance with this Act or Code
(1) The Minister may authorise appropriately qualified persons (
"authorised officers") to investigate and report to the Minister on whether
this Act and the Code are being complied with.
(2) For the purposes of
exercising those functions, an authorised officer may, on giving reasonable
notice to the owner or manager, enter an authorised plantation and require the
owner or manager to provide such information or documents as the officer
requires.
(3) The information or documents that can be required by an
authorised officer must relate to matters that are reasonably connected with
the administration of this Act, or be information or documents required for
the purposes of determining whether this Act or the Code is being complied
with. This does not extend to information or documents of a commercially
sensitive nature.
(4) The owner or manager must not: (a) fail without
reasonable excuse to provide or produce the information or documents required
by an authorised officer, or
(b) provide information to an authorised officer
which the owner or manager knows is false or misleading in a material respect.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.
(5) A person is not excused from
providing information or producing documents under this section on the ground
that the information or documents may tend to incriminate the person.
(6) Any
information or document obtained from a person under this section is not
admissible against the person in criminal proceedings other than proceedings
for an offence under this section.
(7) An authorised officer exercising any
power under this section must, if requested to do so, produce the officer’s
identification card to a person required to provide information or produce
documents under this section.
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