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AUSTRALIAN CRIME COMMISSION (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 2005 - SECT 20

Power to obtain documents

    (1)     An examiner 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 the examiner or a member of the staff of the ACC; and

        (b)     to produce, at the time and place and to the person specified in the notice, a document or thing that is relevant to a special ACC operation/investigation and is specified in the notice.

    (2)     Before issuing a notice under subsection (1), the examiner must:

        (a)     be satisfied that it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so; and

        (b)     record in writing the reasons for the issue of the notice.

    (3)     A notice may be issued under this section in relation to a special ACC operation/investigation, whether or not an examination is being held for the purposes of the operation or investigation.

    (4)     A person must not refuse or fail to comply with a notice served on the person under this section.

Maximum penalty:     500 penalty units or imprisonment for 5 years.

    (5)     The provisions of section 23(3) to (8) (inclusive) and (10) apply in relation to a person who is required to produce a document or thing by a notice served on him or her under this section in the same way as they apply in relation to a person who is required to produce a document or thing at an examination.

    (6)     If there is a contravention of section 23(5) as applied by subsection (5), the provisions of section 23(9) apply to that contravention.



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