WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 760
Power to require production of documents
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 760
Power to require production of documents
760 Power to require production of documents
(1) An authorised officer may require a person to make available for
inspection by an authorised officer, or produce to the authorised officer for
inspection, at a reasonable time and place nominated by the authorised
officer, a document relating to the taking of, or interfering with, water.
(2) The authorised officer may keep the document to copy it.
(3) If the
authorised officer copies a document mentioned in subsection (1) , or an entry
in the document, the authorised officer may require the person responsible for
keeping the document to certify the copy as a true copy of the document or
entry.
(4) The authorised officer must return the document to the person as
soon as practicable after copying it.
(5) However, if a requirement (a
"document certification requirement" ) is made of a person under subsection
(3) , the authorised officer may keep the document until the person complies
with the requirement.
(6) A requirement under subsection (1) is called a
"document production requirement" .
