Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if the Commissioner has reasonable grounds to suspect that a person has information, or a document or thing, relevant to a corruption investigation.
(2) The Commissioner may, by notice in writing, require the person to give the information, document or thing to a specified staff member of the NACC.
Note: Disclosing the existence of a notice, or any information about it, may be prohibited: see Subdivision A of Division 4 (use and disclosure of certain information and material).
(3) The notice is a notice to produce .
(4) If the notice is a post - charge or a post - confiscation application notice, the Commissioner must also have reasonable grounds to suspect that the information, documents or things are necessary for the purposes of the investigation even though:
(a) the person has been charged or the confiscation proceeding has commenced; or
(b) that charge or proceeding is imminent.
(5) The notice:
(a) must:
(i) be served on the person; and
(ii) be signed by the Commissioner; and
(iii) specify the period within which, and the manner in which, the person must comply with the notice; and
(b) may require information be given in writing.
(6) The matters in relation to which the Commissioner may require the person to give the information, document or thing include:
(a) the subject matter of any charge, or imminent charge, against the person; and
(b) the subject matter of any confiscation proceeding, or imminent confiscation proceeding, against the person.
(7) The Commissioner may serve the notice without holding a hearing.