37Power to obtain information and documents

37 Power to obtain information and documents

(1) Where the Commission: (a) is conducting an inquiry; and (b) has reason to believe that a person is capable of giving information or producing documents relevant to the inquiry; the Chairperson may give written notice to the person: (c) requiring him or her to appear at a hearing to give evidence or to produce the documents specified in the notice; or (d) requiring him or her to give to the Commission on or before a day specified in the notice: (i) a statement signed by the person or, in the case of a body corporate, on behalf of the body corporate, setting out the information specified in the notice; or (ii) the documents specified in the notice. (2) Where documents are produced or given to the Commission under subsection (1), the Commission: (a) may take possession of, and may make copies of or take extracts from, the documents; (b) may retain possession of the documents for such period as is necessary for the purposes of the inquiry to which the documents relate; and (c) during that period shall permit them to be inspected at all reasonable times by persons who would be entitled to inspect them if they were not in the possession of the Commission.