PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 109
PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 109
109 . Minister etc. may require information to be furnished etc.
(1) Where the Minister
or an inspector has reason to believe that a person is capable of giving
information or producing documents relating to petroleum exploration
operations or operations for the recovery of petroleum in the State, or to
geothermal energy resources exploration operations or operations for the
recovery of geothermal energy in the State, he may, by instrument in writing
served on that person, require that person —
(a) to
furnish to him, in writing, within the period and in the manner specified in
the instrument, any such information; or
(b) to
attend before him or a person specified in the instrument, at such time and
place as is so specified and there to answer questions relating to those
operations and to produce such documents relating to those operations as are
so specified.
(2) A person is not
excused from furnishing information, answering a question or producing a
document when required to do so under this section on the ground that the
information so furnished, the answer to the question or the production of the
document might tend to incriminate him or make him liable to a penalty.
(3) However, any
information furnished, answer given or document produced pursuant to the
requirement, and any information or thing (including any document) obtained as
a direct or indirect consequence of the furnishing of the information, the
answering of the question or the production of the document, as the case may
be, is not admissible in any civil proceedings or in any criminal proceedings
other than proceedings for an offence against section 111.
[Section 109 amended: No. 35 of 2007 s. 68; No. 42
of 2010 s. 50.]