Power to question persons and require production of documents

For the purpose of the enforcement of this Act, a Fisheries Officer may54 Fisheries Resources (a) require the person being questioned to provide an answer, including any explanation or information concerning any vessel, or any place or thing, or any fish or fishing method, gear, apparatus, record, document, article, device, or object relating to the taking, sale, purchase, or possession of any fish; (b) require that person or any other person to produce any permit, authority, approval, permission, licence, or certificate issued in respect of any vessel or person; (c) make or take copies of any record or document, and for this purpose may take possession of, and remove from the place where they are kept, any such record or document, for such period of time as is reasonable in the circumstances; and (d) if necessary, require a person to reproduce, or assist the Fisheries Officer to reproduce, in a useable form, information recorded or stored in a document. (2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be construed so as to require a person to answer any question tending to incriminate that person.