Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The CEO of a designated Commonwealth entity may, for the purpose of determining whether a sanction law has been or is being complied with, give a person a written notice requiring the person to do either or both of the following:
(a) to give the CEO information of the kind, by the time and in any manner or form, specified in the notice;
(b) to give the CEO documents of the kind, by the time and in any manner, specified in the notice.
(2) The person must comply with the notice despite any other law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.
(3) The time specified in the notice must be reasonable.
(4) The person may, before the time specified in the notice, request the CEO to extend the time by which the information or documents must be given.
(5) The CEO may, by written notice given to the person, vary the notice under subsection (1) to specify a later time by which the information or documents must be given.
(6) Subsection (5) does not limit the application of subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 in relation to a notice under subsection (1).
Note: Subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 deals with revocation and variation etc. of instruments.
(7) Subsection (1) does not apply if:
(a) the person is the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth entity; or
(b) the person:
(i) is, or has at any time been, an officer of a Commonwealth entity; and
(ii) obtained or generated the information or document in the course of carrying out his or her duties as an officer of the Commonwealth entity.