4Minister may require information or documents to be given

4.Minister may require information or documents to be given

(1)The Minister may make an order, or give a direction, requiring a specified government information holder, or each government information holder of a specified class, to give a specified relevant authority specified information or documents —

(a)that are held by or for the government information holder; and

(b)that, in the opinion of the Minister, are, or are likely to be, relevant to authorised purposes.

(2)The order or direction must require the specified information or documents to be given by a specified time or within a specified period.

(3)The order or direction may require either or both of the following —

(a)the specified information or documents to be given in a specified manner;

(b)the specified information or documents to be given or verified by statutory declaration.

(4)A direction under subregulation (1) must be given in writing to each government information holder that is required to give specified information or documents under the direction.

(5)Without limiting the Interpretation Act 1984 section 76, the direction may be given to a government information holder by emailing the direction to an email address provided by the government information holder to a relevant authority if the government information holder consents to the direction being given to the government information holder in that manner.