14Power to obtain information and documents

14 Power to obtain information and documents

(1)  If the Commission has reason to believe that a person is capable of giving information or producing a document relevant to a hearing to be, or being, conducted by the Commission, the Commission may give written notice to the person –

(a) requiring the person to produce the documents specified in the notice, to appear at a hearing to give evidence or to produce the documents specified in the notice and to appear at a hearing to give evidence; or

(b) requiring the person 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 document specified in the notice.

(2)  If a document is 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 document; and

(b) may retain possession of the document for such period as is necessary for the purposes of the hearing to which the document relates; and

(c) during that period, must permit the document to be inspected at all reasonable times by persons who would be entitled to inspect it if it were not in the possession of the Commission.