South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts30—Power to require information etc
(1) For the purposes
of investigating any prescribed matter the Board may, by notice in writing,
require any person—
(a) to
furnish to the Board, within the time specified in the notice, such
information as may be required by the Board; or
(b) to
produce to the Board, within the time specified in the notice, such books,
documents or records as may be required by the Board; or
(c) to
attend for the purpose of giving evidence before the Board at a time and place
specified in the notice.
(2) The Board
may—
(a)
require that information furnished to it in writing be verified by statutory
declaration; and
(b)
require that a person attending before it give evidence and, if it thinks fit,
give that evidence on oath or by affirmation.
(3) The Board is
authorised to administer an oath or to take an affirmation for the purposes of
subsection (2).
(4) If a person—
(a) who
has been served with a notice to furnish information to the Board, or to
produce any books, documents or records to the Board, fails without reasonable
excuse to comply with the notice; or
(b) who
has been served with a notice to attend before the Board fails without
reasonable excuse to attend in compliance with the notice; or
(c)
refuses to be sworn or to affirm, or to answer any relevant question when
required to do so by the Board,
the person is guilty of an offence.
Penalty: $1 000.
(5) A person is not
obliged to answer a question under this section if the answer would tend to
incriminate that person of an offence, or to produce a book, document or
record if it or its contents would tend to incriminate that person of an
offence.
(6) In this
section—
"prescribed matter" means—
(a) any
matter relevant to ascertaining whether a person is liable to make a payment
to the Board under this Act, and, if so, the extent of that liability; and
(b) any
other matter prescribed by the regulations.