South Australian Numbered Acts

STATUTES AMENDMENT AND REPEAL (FAIR TRADING) ACT 2009 (NO 39 OF 2009) - SECT 37

37—Amendment of section 77—Obtaining information

        (1)         Section 77(1)(b)—delete paragraph (b)

        (2)         Section 77—after subsection (1) insert:

        (1a)         An authorised officer may, for the purposes of subsection (1), by notice in writing served on a person, require the person to attend at a specified time and place.

        (3)         Section 77(2)—delete subsection (2) and substitute:

        (2)         A person must not—

            (a)         refuse or fail to comply with a reasonable requirement under this section; or

            (b)         without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to attend at the time and place specified in a notice under subsection (1a) (or some other time and place allowed by an authorised officer); or

            (c)         knowingly make a statement that is false or misleading in a material particular (whether by reason of the inclusion or omission of a particular) in an answer given or information provided under this section.

Maximum penalty: $20 000.

        (2a)         An authorised officer may require that the answer to a question under this section be verified by statutory declaration or given under oath.