Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

HERITAGE ACT 2004 - SECT 95

    (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.

    (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.