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Real Estate Agents Act 2008

Complaints and discipline - Complaints Assessment Committees

85: Powers to call for information or documents

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"Committee can ask for information or documents to help with their inquiry"

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You can be asked to give information or documents to a Complaints Assessment Committee. The Committee can ask you for papers, documents, records, or things in writing. They can do this if they think it is necessary for their inquiry and you did not give them the information when they asked you before. You might be asked for information if the Committee cannot get it from another source. They might also ask you for information to check something they already know. The Committee must believe they need the information for a good reason. The Committee's powers are similar to those in s 77. You will be given a notice in writing if the Committee requires information from you. The Committee will use the information to help with their inquiry.

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Part 4Complaints and discipline
Complaints Assessment Committees

85Powers to call for information or documents

  1. If the conditions stated in subsection (2) are satisfied, a Committee may, by notice in writing, require any person to produce to the Committee any papers, documents, records, or things.

  2. The conditions referred to in subsection (1) are that—

  3. the members of the Committee believe, on reasonable grounds, that the exercise of the powers conferred by that subsection is necessary to enable the Committee to carry out its inquiry; and
    1. the person to whom a notice under that subsection is to be given has failed to comply with a previous request to produce to the Committee, within a reasonable time, the papers, documents, records, or things required by the notice; and
      1. the members of the Committee believe, on reasonable grounds, that—
        1. it is not reasonably practicable to obtain the information required by the Committee from another source; or
          1. for the purposes of the investigation, it is necessary to obtain the papers, documents, records, or things to verify or refute information obtained from another source.

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