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BOUNTY (SHIPS) AMENDMENT ACT 1985 No. 76 of 1985 - SECT 16

Power to require persons to answer questions and produce documents
16. Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended-
(a) by inserting in sub-section (1) "on reasonable grounds" after

"believes";

   (b)  by inserting in sub-section (1) "(including the cost of the
construction or modification)" after " modification" (wherever occurring);

   (c)  by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-sections:



"(1A) A notice under sub-section (1) requiring a person to produce an account,
book, document or record shall set out the effect of sub-section (1B).



"(1B) A person who, pursuant to a notice under sub-section (1), produces an
account, book, document or record kept, made or prepared by another person
that, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, is false or misleading
in a material particular shall, upon so producing the account, book, document
or record, give to the person to whom the first-mentioned person is required
to produce the account, book, document or record, a statement in writing
signed by the first-mentioned person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a
competent officer of the body corporate-

   (a)  stating that the account, book, document or record is, to the
        knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading in a
        material particular; and

   (b)  setting out, or referring to, the material particular in respect of
        which the account, book, document or record is, to the knowledge of
        the first-mentioned person, false or misleading.

Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.";

   (d)  by omitting from sub-section (3) all the words after "liable" and
        substituting "to a penalty, but the answer of the person to any such
        question, or the production by the person of any such account, book,
        document or other record, is not admissible in evidence against the
        person in criminal proceedings other than proceedings under, or
        arising out of or by virtue of, sub-section (1B) or paragraph 17 (3)
        (a)"; and
(e) by inserting in sub-section (4) "in writing" after "directs".



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