Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

WATER ACT - SECT 31

(1) For the purpose of enabling it to advise the Minister on a matter referred to it under section 30(3)(b), the Review Panel may:

(a) by notice signed by its Chairman, require the attendance before the Review Panel of a person;

(b) by notice signed by its Chairman, require the production of any relevant books, papers or documents before the Review Panel;

(c) inspect any books, papers or documents produced before it and retain them for such reasonable period as it thinks fit and make copies of the contents of such books, papers or documents;

(d) require a person to give evidence on oath;

(e) require a person appearing before the Review Panel to answer a relevant question put to the person by the Review Panel or by any other person appearing before the Review Panel; or

(f) enter and inspect, or authorise a person to enter and inspect, any land for the purposes of a proceeding before the Review Panel.

(2) A person who:

(a) having been served with a notice to attend before the Review Panel fails without reasonable excuse to attend in accordance with the notice;

(b) having been served with a notice to produce before the Review Panel any books, papers or documents, fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the notice;

(c) misbehaves before the Review Panel, wilfully insults the Review Panel or a member of the Review Panel in that capacity or, without reasonable excuse, interrupts the proceedings of the Review Panel;

(d) refuses to be sworn, or to answer a relevant question, when required to do so by the Review Panel; or

(e) refuses to permit the Review Panel, or a person authorised by the Review Panel, to enter land,

is guilty of an offence.

Penalty: $1,000.