25Power to require persons to answer questions and produce documents

##### 25 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 the Act in relation to: (a) the manufacture (including the cost of manufacture) of bountiable equipment; or (b) the conduct of research and development; to attend before him or her at the time and place specified in the notice for the purposes set out in subsection (1A). (1A) The purposes of attending before the Collector or authorized officer are: (a) to answer questions; and (b) to produce the accounts, books, documents or other records, referred to in the notice; that relate to: (c) the manufacture (including the cost of manufacture) of bountiable equipment; or (d) the conduct of research and development. (2) 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. (4) A Collector or an authorized officer may make and retain copies of, or take and retain extracts from, any accounts, books, documents or other records produced in pursuance of this section. (5) 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 the person or make the person liable to a penalty, but the answer of the person to any such question, or the production by the person of any such account, book, document or other record, is not admissible in evidence against the person in criminal proceedings other than a prosecution for an offence against section 136.1, 137.1 or 137.2 of the Criminal Code that relates to this Act. (6) Where a manufacturer of bountiable equipment, or a person employed by a manufacturer of bountiable equipment, 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 manufacturer, unless the CEO otherwise directs in writing, until the manufacturer or that person, as the case may be, has attended, answered the question or produced the account, book, document or other record, as the case may be.