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Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Offences and miscellaneous - Provisions relating to enforcement officers, auditing, and requiring information

99F: Power to require information

You could also call this:

"Government officials can ask you for information and you must give it to them"

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The Minister, the chief executive, or an enforcement officer can ask you to provide information in writing. You have to give them the information they need to do their job or to make sure everyone follows the Crown Minerals Act. They can ask you for information about how a permit is being used or about any commercial agreements related to a permit.

You have to provide the information in the way they ask for it and within a reasonable time. You cannot charge them for the information. If you want the information to be kept secret, you can ask them to agree to this in writing. They might agree to keep the information confidential if you ask them to.

If you are asked to provide information, you must do so even if you asked for it to be kept secret and they agreed. The Minister, the chief executive, or an enforcement officer can get the information from you, and you have to give it to them as requested.

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Part 1BPermits, access to land, and other matters
Offences and miscellaneous: Provisions relating to enforcement officers, auditing, and requiring information

99FPower to require information

  1. The Minister, the chief executive, or any enforcement officer may, by written notice, require any person to provide any information that the person giving the notice considers is necessary for any purpose relating to that person’s functions, duties, or powers under this Act or for the administration or enforcement of this Act.

  2. The information specified in the notice may relate to—

  3. any aspect of the operation of a permit:
    1. any commercial agreements or arrangements to which a permit participant is a party.

      1. Information may be disclosed to the Minister, the chief executive, or an enforcement officer in confidence if—

      2. a person who is required to provide information under subsection (1) so requests; and
        1. the Minister, chief executive, or enforcement officer agrees to that request in writing.

          1. A person required to provide any information under this section must provide the information—

          2. in the form and in the manner set out in the notice; and
            1. within any reasonable time specified in the notice requiring the information; and
              1. free of charge; and
                1. regardless of whether the Minister, chief executive, or enforcement officer agrees to the information being disclosed in confidence.

                  Notes
                  • Section 99F: inserted, on , by section 52 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).