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Integrity Sport and Recreation Act 2023

Powers, investigations, and disciplinary panels - Integrity investigations - Powers relating to investigation under section 31 or 32

34: Power to require information or documents

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"The Commission can ask for information or documents to help with an investigation"

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The Commission can ask you for information or documents if they think you have something that can help with an investigation under section 31 or 32. They must believe they need this information to investigate something, and they cannot get it from you or someone else by asking nicely. The Commission can ask you to give them the information, show them a document, or let them make a copy of a document.

You might be asked for information if you are part of a group like Sport and Recreation New Zealand, the New Zealand Olympic Committee, or a national sporting organisation. The Commission can also ask if you are part of a smaller group that is connected to one of these organisations. They will send you a written notice to ask for the information or documents.

The Commission needs to think you have the information or documents they are asking for, and they must have a good reason to ask you for them.

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Part 4Powers, investigations, and disciplinary panels
Integrity investigations: Powers relating to investigation under section 31 or 32

34Power to require information or documents

  1. If the conditions in subsection (2) are satisfied, the Commission may, by notice in writing, require a specified person—

  2. to provide the Commission or a specified employee of the Commission with any information the Commission requires; or
    1. to produce to the Commission or a specified employee of the Commission any document in the custody or under the control of that person, and to allow copies of, or extracts from, any such document to be made or taken; or
      1. to provide to the Commission or to a specified employee of the Commission copies or extracts from documents in the custody or under the control of that person.

        1. The conditions referred to in subsection (1) are that the Commission believes, on reasonable grounds, that—

        2. the information is relevant to an investigation under section 31 or 32; and
          1. the information or document or extract cannot be obtained from the specified person, or any other person, by consent; and
            1. the person holds or is likely to hold the information or document.

              1. In this section, specified person means—

              2. Sport and Recreation New Zealand:
                1. a subsidiary of Sport and Recreation New Zealand:
                  1. the New Zealand Olympic Committee Incorporated:
                    1. Paralympics New Zealand Incorporated:
                      1. a national sporting organisation:
                        1. an affiliate of a national sporting organisation:
                          1. a national recreational organisation.