Fair Trading Act 1986

47G Commission may require person to supply information or documents

• (1) If the Commission considers it necessary or desirable for the purposes of carrying out its functions and exercising its powers under this Act, the Commission may, by notice in writing served on any person, require that person—

  • (a) to supply to the Commission, by writing signed by that person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a director or competent employee or agent of the body corporate, within the time and in the manner specified in the notice, any information or class of information specified in the notice; or

  • (b) to supply to the Commission, or to a person specified in the notice acting on its behalf in accordance with the notice, any document or class of documents specified in the notice.

  (2) Every person who is required to supply information or documents to the Commission has the same privileges in relation to the supply of the information or documents as witnesses have in any court.

  Compare: 1986 No 5 s 98; 1994 No 143 s 138(2)

  Section 47G: inserted, on 8 July 2003, by section 15 of the Fair Trading Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 31).