Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) For the administration of this Act, an authorised officer may, by written notice, require the holder of a CDS approval or a CDS supplier to produce a document held or kept by the approval holder or supplier under this Act to the officer for inspection.
(2) The notice must state it is an offence to fail to produce the document unless the approval holder or CDS supplier has a reasonable excuse.
(3) The authorised officer may keep a produced document to take an extract from, or make a copy of, the document.
(4) The approval holder or CDS supplier must comply with the notice.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.
(5) An offence against subsection (4) is an offence of strict liability.
(6) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (4) if the defendant has a reasonable excuse.
(7) Without limiting subsection (6), it is a reasonable excuse for an approval holder or CDS supplier to fail to produce a document if complying with the requirement might tend to incriminate the approval holder or supplier.