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Customer and Product Data Bill

Regulatory and enforcement matters - Regulatory powers

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

You could also call this:

“The boss can ask you for information or papers to help with their job”

The proposed law says that the chief executive might ask you for information or documents. They can do this if they think it’s needed for their job under this new law. They would send you a written notice asking for specific information or documents.

If you get this notice, you might need to:

  • Give the chief executive certain information by a set time and in a certain way.
  • Show the chief executive (or someone they choose) specific documents by a set time and in a certain way.
  • Help turn information from documents into a form that can be easily used, if needed.

If you’re asked to give information, you need to write it down and sign it as the notice says.

When someone shows documents to the chief executive (or the person they chose), that person can look at the documents, make records about them, and make copies or take parts from them.

There are other parts of this proposed law that talk about how these notices should be given. You can find more details about this in sections 139 and 140 of the bill.

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Regulatory powers

54Chief 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 139 and 140, which provide for notice requirements.