Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SHIPS (CAPITAL GRANTS) ACT 1987 No. 74, 1987 - SECT 29

29. (1) An officer of the Department authorised by the Secretary, in writing,
to exercise powers under this section may, by notice signed by the officer,
require a person whom the officer believes on reasonable grounds to be capable
of giving information relevant to matters in respect of which particulars are
required to be given under subsection 21 (2), to attend before the officer at
a reasonable time and place specified in the notice and there to answer
questions, and to produce to the officer such documents and other records in
relation to such of those matters as are referred to in the notice.

(2) A notice under subsection (1) requiring a person to produce a document or
record shall set out the effect of subsection (3).

(3) A person who, pursuant to a notice under subsection (1), produces a
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 document or record, give to the person
to whom the first-mentioned person is required to produce the 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 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 document or record is, to the knowledge of the
        first-mentioned person, false or misleading.
Penalty:

   (a)  in the case of a natural person - $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months,
        or both; or

   (b)  in the case of a body corporate - $5,000.

(4) An officer referred to in subsection (1) may make and retain copies of, or
take and retain extracts from, any documents or other records produced under
this section.