New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CONFISCATION OF PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1989 - SECT 59

59 Making of production orders

(1) If an application is made under section 58 for a production order against a person, the Supreme Court may make an order that the person--

(a) produce to an authorised officer any property-tracking documents that are in the person's possession or control, or

(b) make available to the authorised officer, for inspection, any property-tracking documents that are in the person's possession or control.

(2) An order under subsection (1) (a) shall not be made in respect of bankers' books.

(3) The Supreme Court shall not make an order under this section unless--

(a) the informant or some other person has given the Court, either orally or by affidavit, such information (if any) as the Court requires concerning the grounds on which the order is sought, and

(b) the Court is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for making the order.

(4) In this section--

"bankers' books" means any accounting records used in the ordinary business of banking, and includes ledgers, day-books, cash-books and account books.