16Power to require persons to answer questions and produce documents

16 Power to require persons to answer questions and produce documents

(1) A Collector or an authorized officer may, by notice signed by him or her, require a person whom he or she believes on reasonable grounds to be capable of giving information relevant to the operation of this Act in relation to the production (including the cost of production), sale or other disposal, or use of bountiable yarns to attend before him or her at a reasonable time and place specified in the notice and there to answer questions and to produce to him or her such accounts, books, documents and other records in relation to the production (including the cost of production), sale or other disposal, or use of bountiable yarns as are referred to in the notice. (1A) A notice under subsection (1) requiring a person to produce an account, book, document or record shall set out the effect of section 137.2 of the Criminal Code. (2) A Collector or an authorized officer may make copies of, or take extracts from, any accounts, books, documents or other records produced in pursuance of this section. (3) A person is not excused from answering a question or producing any accounts, books, documents or other records when required so to do under this section on the ground that the answer to the question, or the production of the accounts, books, documents or other records, might tend to incriminate him or her or make him or her liable to a penalty, but his or her answer to any such question or the production by him or her of any such account, book, document or other record is not admissible in evidence against him or her in proceedings other than proceedings for an offence against paragraph 18(1)(c) of this Act or a prosecution for an offence against section 136.1, 137.1 or 137.2 of the Criminal Code that relates to this Act. (4) Where a producer of bountiable yarns, or a person employed by a producer, has failed to attend or to answer a question, or to produce any account, book, document or other record, when required so to do under this section, bounty is not payable to the producer, unless the CEO otherwise directs, until the producer or that person has attended, answered the question or produced the account, book, document or other record, as the case may be.