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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Regulatory and enforcement matters - Regulatory powers

53: Chief executive may require person to supply information or produce documents

You could also call this:

"The boss can ask you for information to help with their job"

The chief executive can ask you to give them information or documents if they think it's needed for their job under this law. They will send you a written notice telling you what they need and when they need it by. You might have to give them information, show them documents, or help turn information from documents into a usable form.

If you're asked to give information, you need to write it down and sign it the way the notice says. When you show documents to the chief executive or someone they've chosen, they can look at the documents, make records about them, and take copies or parts of them.

There are other parts of the law that talk about how these notices should be given. You can find more details about this in sections 145 and 146 of the Act.

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53Chief executive may require person to supply information or produce documents

  1. If the chief executive considers it necessary or desirable for the purposes of performing or exercising their functions, powers, or duties under this Act, the chief executive may, by written notice served on any person, require the person—

  2. to supply to the chief executive, within the time and in the manner specified in the notice, any information or class of information specified in the notice; or
    1. to produce to the chief executive, or to a person specified in the notice acting on their behalf in accordance with the notice, any document or class of documents specified in the notice (within the time and in the manner specified in the notice); or
      1. if necessary, to reproduce, or assist in reproducing, in usable form, information recorded or stored in any document or class of documents specified in the notice (within the time and in the manner specified in the notice).

        1. Information supplied in response to a notice under subsection (1)(a) must be—

        2. given in writing; and
          1. signed in the manner specified in the notice.

            1. If a document is produced in response to a notice, the chief executive, or the person to whom the document is produced, may—

            2. inspect and make records of that document; and
              1. take copies of the document or extracts from the document.

                1. See sections 145 and 146, which provide for notice requirements.

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