New Zealand Legislation: Acts

21 Compliance with requirement to provide information or document

• (1) A person to whom a notice under section 20 is given must, without charge, comply with the requirement stated in the notice in the manner and within a period (being not less than 20 working days after the notice is given to the person) specified in the notice.

  (2) Subsection (1) does not require a person to provide any information or produce any document that would be privileged in a court of law.

  (3) Every person commits an offence, and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000, who, when required to comply with a notice given under section 20,—

  • (a) refuses or fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the notice; or

  • (b) knowingly or recklessly provides information that is false or misleading in any material particular.