25Requiring persons to give evidence or provide documents

25 Requiring persons to give evidence or provide documents

(1)  For the purposes of a price determination investigation, the Regulator may, by written notice to a person, require the person to do any one or more of the following:

(a) attend before the Regulator and answer questions which are, in the opinion of the Regulator, relevant to the investigation;

(b) provide to the Regulator, in the manner specified in the notice, a document specified in the notice that is in the person’s possession or control and that, in the opinion of the Regulator, is relevant to the investigation;

(c) provide to the Regulator, in the manner specified in the notice, any other information, specified in the notice, that, in the opinion of the Regulator, is relevant to the investigation.

(2)  The Regulator may not impose, under subregulation (1) , a requirement on a person –

(a) to answer a question, or provide information, if to do so would require the person to divulge information contained in, or relating to, a Cabinet record; or

(b) to provide a Cabinet record to the Regulator.

(3)  A person who attends before the Regulator pursuant to a requirement imposed under subregulation (1) may, at the Regulator’s discretion, be paid by the Regulator the reasonable allowances and expenses determined by the Regulator.