Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

INDEPENDENT PARLIAMENTARY EXPENSES AUTHORITY ACT 2017 - SECT 53

Scope

  (1)   This section applies to a person if the Authority has reason to believe that the person has information or a document that is relevant to the performance of a function conferred on the Authority by any of paragraphs 12(1)(e) to (i).

Requirement

  (2)   The Authority may, by written notice given to the person, require the person:

  (a)   to give to the Authority, within the period and in the manner and form specified in the notice, any such information; or

  (b)   to produce to the Authority, within the period and in the manner specified in the notice, any such documents; or

  (c)   to make copies of any such documents and to produce to the Authority, within the period and in the manner specified in the notice, those copies.

  (3)   A period specified under subsection   (2) must not be shorter than 14 days after the notice is given.

  (4)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the Authority has given a notice to the person under subsection   (2); and

  (b)   the person engages in conduct; and

  (c)   the person's conduct contravenes a requirement in the notice.

Penalty:   30 penalty units.

  (5)   A notice under subsection   (2) must set out the effect of:

  (a)   subsection   (4); and

  (b)   sections   137.1 and 137.2 of the Criminal Code .