New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRICES REGULATION ACT 1948 - SECT 13

13 Power to obtain information

(1) For the purposes of an inquiry, the Tribunal or an authorised officer may require any person:

(a) to furnish it or him or her with such information as it or he or she requires, or

(b) to answer any question put to him or her,

in relation to any goods or services, whether declared or not, or to any other matter arising under this Act.

(2) The Tribunal or authorised officer may require the information to be given, or the question to be answered, on oath and either orally or in writing, and for that purpose may administer an oath.

(3) The Tribunal or authorised officer may, by notice in writing, require the information to be given, or the question to be answered in writing and at the place specified in the notice.

(4) A person shall not, when so required under subsection (1):

(a) refuse or fail to furnish any information or to answer any question, or

(b) give any information or make any answer which is false in any particular.

(5) A person shall not be obliged to answer orally any question or questions unless he or she has first been informed by the Tribunal or the authorised officer asking the question or questions that he or she is required and is obliged to answer by virtue of this section.

(6) A person shall not refuse to furnish any information required or to answer any question put to him or her pursuant to this section on the ground that his or her so doing might tend to incriminate him or her or to make him or her liable to any penalty.

(7) Any answer given orally by any person pursuant to any requirement under this section after he or she has been informed in the manner required by subsection (5) shall not be admissible in evidence in any proceedings, civil or criminal, against him or her other than proceedings taken pursuant to subsection (4).