115Designated Authority etc. may require information to be furnished etc.

#### 115 Designated Authority etc. may require information to be furnished etc. (1) Where the Designated Authority, or an inspector, in respect of an adjacent area, or a part of an adjacent area, has reason to believe that a person is capable of giving information or producing documents relating to petroleum exploration operations, operations for the recovery of petroleum (including the measurement of the amount of petroleum recovered), operations relating to the processing or storage of petroleum or the preparation of petroleum for transport or operations connected with the construction or operation of a pipeline in that adjacent area, or that part of an adjacent area, he may, by instrument in writing served on that person, require that person: (a) to furnish to him in writing, within the period and in the manner specified in the instrument, any such information; or (b) to attend before him or a person specified in the instrument, at such time and place as is so specified and there to answer questions relating to those operations and to produce such documents relating to those operations as are so specified. (2) A person is not excused from furnishing information, answering a question or producing a document when required to do so under this section on the ground that the information so furnished, the answer to the question or the production of the document might tend to incriminate him or make him liable to a penalty. (3) However, any information furnished, answer given or document produced pursuant to the requirement, and any information or thing (including any document) obtained as a direct or indirect consequence of the furnishing of the information, the answering of the question or the production of the document, as the case may be, is not admissible in evidence against the person in any civil proceedings or in any criminal proceedings other than proceedings for an offence against section 117.