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NATIONAL CRIME AUTHORITY (STATE PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 - SECT 18

Power to obtain documents

18 Power to obtain documents

(1) A member may, by notice in writing served on a person, require the person:
(a) to attend, at a time and place specified in the notice, before a person specified in the notice, being a member of the Authority or a member of the staff of the Authority, and
(b) to produce at that time and place to the person so specified a document or thing specified in the notice, being a document or thing that is relevant to a special investigation.
(2) A notice may be issued under this section in relation to a special investigation whether or not a hearing before the Authority is being held for the purposes of the investigation.
(3) A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply with a notice served on the person under this section.
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months.
(4) The provisions of section 19 (3) to (12), inclusive, apply in relation to a person who is required to produce a document or thing by a notice served on the person under this section in the same manner as they apply in relation to a person who is required to produce a document or thing at a hearing before the Authority and so apply as if a reference in those provisions to section 19 (2) were a reference to subsection (3) of this section.
(5) If a person who is required to produce a document or thing by a notice served on the person under this section claims to the person (in this subsection referred to as the "relevant person") to whom the claimant is required to produce it that the claimant is entitled to refuse to produce the document or thing, the relevant person shall:
(a) if satisfied that the claim is justified--inform the claimant that the requirement will not be insisted upon, or
(b) in any other case--inform the claimant that the relevant person is not so satisfied and, if the document or thing is not produced forthwith, refer the claim to the Authority for decision under section 21.



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