Energy and Utilities Administration Act 1987
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40 Persons may be required to furnish information
40 Persons may be required to furnish information
(1) The Corporation may, by notice in writing, require any person to furnish to it such information in connection with any matter relating to its functions as may be specified in the notice.
(1A) The Minister may, by notice in writing, require a water or energy service provider to furnish to the Minister such information concerning such of the following matters as may be specified in the notice—
(a) the identity of the persons or bodies to which the provider provides a water service within a water savings area,
(b) the identity of the persons or bodies to which the provider provides an energy service,
(c) the amount of water or energy that is provided to any such persons or bodies by the provider.
(2) A person shall not neglect or fail to comply with a requirement under this section.
Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.
(3) Information furnished pursuant to such a requirement is not, if the person furnishing it objected, at the time, to doing so on the ground that it might tend to incriminate the person, admissible in evidence in any prosecution against the person for an offence (not being an offence under this section).
(4) Compliance with a requirement under this section to furnish information is not to be regarded as—
(a) a breach of contract or confidence or otherwise as a civil wrong, or
(b) a breach of any instrument, or
(c) an event of default under any contract or other instrument, or
(d) giving rise to any remedy by a party to a contract or other instrument, or as causing or permitting the termination of, or exercise of rights under, any contract or other instrument.
(5) In this section—
water or energy service provider means any of the following—
(a) an energy services corporation within the meaning of the Energy Services Corporations Act 1995,
(a1) an authorised network operator under the Electricity Network Assets (Authorised Transactions) Act 2015,