Copyright Act 1994

138 Limitations on requirement to supply information

• (1) The chief executive must not require any person to supply any information under section 137(2) unless the chief executive believes that the information is reasonably necessary for the purposes of an investigation under section 137(1).

  (2) Every person who is required to supply information to the chief executive under section 137(2) has the same privileges in relation to the giving of the information as witnesses have in any court.

  (3) Where any person refuses or fails to supply information required by the chief executive under section 137(2), the chief executive may, subject to subsection (2), take that refusal or failure into account in forming any opinion under section 137(1) or in making any determination under section 137(3).

  Section 138: substituted, on 28 July 1997, by section 2 of the Copyright Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 38).