New South Wales Consolidated Acts

REGISTERED CLUBS ACT 1976 - SECT 35A

35A Director may carry out inquiries and investigations

(1) The Director may carry out such investigations and inquiries as the Director 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 on, such matters as the Director may request concerning a person who is the subject of an investigation under this section.

(3) The Director 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, 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, 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 such authorities and consents as the Director requires for the purpose of enabling the Director 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 contained in a notice under subsection (3).

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