152Requirement to give information and produce documents

152 Requirement to give information and produce documents (1) The commissioner for fair trading may, by written notice given to a claimant, require the person to give the commissioner, within a reasonable time stated in the notice, stated information or documents that the commissioner for fair trading considers necessary to decide a claim. Note For how documents may be given, see the Legislation Act, pt 19.5. (2) The notice may state in what form the information is to be given to the commissioner for fair trading. Note It is an offence to make a false or misleading statement, give false or misleading information or produce a false or misleading document (see Criminal Code, pt 3.4). (3) The commissioner for fair trading may–– (a) keep a document for as long as is necessary; and (b) take copies of a document. (4) If the commissioner for fair trading keeps a document under subsection (3)— (a) the commissioner must, as soon as practicable, give the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document a copy certified by the commissioner to be a true copy; and (b) until the certified copy is given, the commissioner must, at the times and places the commissioner considers appropriate, allow the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document, or a person authorised by that person, to inspect and make copies of, or take extracts from, the document. (5) In any proceeding in which a document kept by the commissioner for fair trading under subsection (3) is admissible in evidence, a copy of the document certified to be a true copy under subsection (4) is admissible in evidence as if it were the original.