s.14Power to require information or documents
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Section 14Part 5 — Enforcement: Information Powers

Power to require information or documents

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An enforcement officer may, by notice to a relevant person, require the relevant person to —
provide information as may be specified in the notice; or
produce documents as may be so specified, in such form and verified or authenticated in such manner as may be required by the enforcement officer.
An enforcement officer may exercise powers under this section only if the information or documents sought to be obtained as a result are reasonably required in connection with the exercise by the Financial Reporting Authority of its functions under this Law.
Where an enforcement officer requires information to be provided or documents to be produced under this section —
the notice shall set out —
the reasons why the enforcement officer requires the information to be provided or the documents to be produced;
a period of seventy-two hours or such longer period as the enforcement officer considers reasonable, within which the information or the documents are to be produced; and
the information shall be provided or the documents produced —
by or before the end of the period specified in the notice; and
at such place as may be so specified.
A relevant person may apply in writing to the enforcement officer for an extension of the period in the notice, before such period has expired, and shall provide reasons why an extension is required.
In relation to a document that is in electronic form, the power to require the production of the document includes a power to require the production of a copy of the document in legible form or in a form from which the document can readily be produced in visible and legible form.
An enforcement officer may take copies of, or make extracts from, any document that is produced under this section.
The production of a document shall not affect any lien which a person has on the document.

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