(1) ASIC may make such investigation as it considers expedient for the due administration of the Commonwealth credit legislation if it has reason to suspect that there may have been committed:
(a) a contravention of the credit legislation; or
(b) a contravention of a law of the Commonwealth, or of a law of a referring State or a Territory, being a contravention that:
(i) concerns the management, conduct or affairs of a licensee, credit representative or other person who engages, or has engaged, in a credit activity; or
(ii) involves fraud or dishonesty and relates to a credit activity engaged in by a person, or a credit contract, mortgage, guarantee or consumer lease.