Heritage Act 2004
95Information discovery order
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95 Information discovery order (1) This section applies if the council has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person— (a) has information (the required information) reasonably required by the council for the administration or enforcement of this Act; or (b) has possession or control of a document containing the required information. (2) The council may give the person an order (an information discovery order) requiring the person to give the information, or produce the document, to the council. (3) The information discovery order must be in writing and must include particulars of the following: (a) the identity of the person to whom it is given; (b) why the information is required; (c) the time by which the order must be complied with; (d) the operation of section 96. (4) A person does not incur any civil or criminal liability only because the person gives information, or produces a document, to the council in accordance with an information discovery order.
Miscellaneous Division 14.6 (5) The council must return a document produced in accordance with an information discovery order to the person who produced the document as soon as practicable.