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Inquiries Act 2013

Duties, powers, immunities, and privileges - Evidential matters

20: Powers to obtain information

You could also call this:

"Getting the information you need for an inquiry"

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When you are part of an inquiry, you can ask people to help you get the information you need. You can ask them to show you documents or things they have, or to make copies of these. You can also ask them to give you information in a way that you approve.

You can look at documents or things that someone brings to the inquiry. If someone says a document or thing is private, you can look at it to decide if it should be kept private. You can also ask someone independent to help you make this decision.

You can ask people to confirm that the information they give you is true by making a statutory declaration. This means they promise that what they say is true, and they can get in trouble if they lie.

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Part 3Duties, powers, immunities, and privileges
Evidential matters

20Powers to obtain information

  1. An inquiry may, as it thinks appropriate for the purposes of the inquiry,—

  2. require any person to—
    1. produce any documents or things in that person's possession or control or copies of those documents or things:
      1. allow copies or representations of those documents or things to be made:
        1. provide information to the inquiry, in a form approved by the inquiry:
          1. verify by statutory declaration any written information, copies of documents, or representations of things provided to the inquiry:
          2. examine any document or thing that is produced by a witness:
            1. examine any document or thing for which privilege or confidentiality is claimed, or refer the document or thing to an independent person or body, to determine whether—
              1. the person claiming privilege or confidentiality has a justifiable reason in maintaining the privilege or confidentiality; or
                1. the document or thing should be disclosed.