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Legal & obligation to give information
Cap. 105, s. 47 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Every person required by the Commission or by a special investigator duly appointed under this Act, or other authorized officer, in pursuance of the objectives and powers of this Act, to give any information on any subject which it is the duty of the Commission, or of that officer to inquire into under this Act and which it is in his power to give, is legally bound to give that information.
(2) A request to give information under subsection (1) of this section, includes the disclosure or production by any person of all or any information or accounts or documents or articles as may be required by the officer so authorized,
whether it is a natural person or a body corporate.
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(3) The failure by any person or body to comply with the provision of this Act is an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine of ten thousand dollars or imprisonment to a period of three years, or to both fine and imprisonment.
(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3) of this section, a Court shall order the disclosure of information or the production of documents, as the case may be, in relation to the investigation for which the same was required.
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