New South Wales Consolidated Acts

REGISTERED CLUBS ACT 1976 - SECT 35A

35A Director-General may carry out inquiries and investigations

(1) The Director-General may carry out such investigations and inquiries as the Director-General considers necessary in order to ascertain:

(a) whether a complaint should be made under Part 6A in relation to the secretary, or a member of the governing body, of a registered club, or

(b) whether a registered club or member of the governing body or employee of a registered club is complying with the provisions of Part 4A.

(2) The Commissioner of Police is to inquire into, and report to the Director-General on, such matters as the Director-General may request concerning a person who is the subject of an investigation under this section.

(3) The Director-General may, by notice in writing, require a person who is the subject of an investigation under this section, or is a member of the governing body of or an employee of a registered club that is the subject of such an investigation, to do one or more of the following things:

(a) provide, in accordance with directions in the notice, such information verified by statutory declaration as, in the opinion of the Director-General, is relevant to the investigation and is specified in the notice,

(b) produce, in accordance with directions in the notice, such records as, in the opinion of the Director-General, are relevant to the investigation and permit examination of the records, the taking of extracts from them and the making of copies of them,

(c) authorise a person described in the notice to comply with a requirement of the kind referred to in paragraph (a) or (b),

(d) furnish to the Director-General such authorities and consents as the Director-General requires for the purpose of enabling the Director-General to obtain information (including financial and other confidential information) from other persons concerning the person under investigation and his or her associates.

(4) A person who complies with a requirement of a notice under this section does not on that account incur a liability to another person.

(5) A person must not fail to comply with a requirement of the Director-General contained in a notice under subsection (3).

Maximum penalty (subsection (5)): 20 penalty units.