Queensland Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF LAND REGISTER ACT 1988 - SECT 22

22 Registrar may require additional information

(1) The registrar may, for the purpose of—

(a) ascertaining whether there is any liability on a person to lodge an approved form; or

(b) ascertaining whether a person is required to comply with this Act or whether the Act has been contravened or not complied with by a person in any respect; or

(c) enquiring into any matter connected with the administration of this Act;

by notice in writing, require a person—

(d) to give information of a kind and in a form or manner specified in the notice or to produce records (or copies of records) of a kind specified in the notice (being information or records believed to be within the knowledge, in the custody or under the control of the person) at a place and within a time specified in the notice, to the registrar or an officer authorised by the registrar and specified in the notice; or

(e) to attend before the registrar or an officer authorised by the registrar and specified in the notice at a time and place specified in the notice and there to give information and to produce records of a kind specified in the notice (being information or records believed to be within the knowledge, in the custody or under the control of the person) and to answer questions or to do all or any of those things.

(2) The registrar or an officer authorised by the registrar under subsection (1) may require information sought under this section to be given, verbally on oath or in writing by statutory declaration, as the case may be, and for that purpose the registrar, that officer or any justice may administer an oath or take a declaration.

(3) The registrar or an officer authorised by the registrar under subsection (1) may cause to be made copies of or extracts from the whole or part of the information or records produced under subsection (1) .

(4) A notice under subsection (1) which requires a person to give information to, to attend before or to produce records to an officer authorised by the registrar under subsection (1) may specify that officer by name or by the office that the officer holds.

(5) Even though a notice issued under subsection (1) requires a person to give information to, to attend before or to produce records to an officer whose name or office is specified in the notice, the registrar may at any time (without notice to the person to whom the notice was given) authorise another officer for that purpose to exercise any power or perform any duty that the other officer would be able to exercise or perform if the other officer were authorised under subsection (1) .

(6) The regulations may prescribe scales of expenses to be allowed to persons whose attendance is required under this section.