New Zealand Legislation: Bills

9 Submissions and information relating to safeguard investigation

• (1) The chief executive must seek submissions relating to a safeguard investigation from interested persons (giving an appropriate time period) and must consider any submissions received.

  (2) The chief executive may require, at any time during a safeguard investigation, that the application under section 8 for the safeguard investigation, or any submission or any other information relating to the safeguard investigation, be supported by a statutory declaration in the manner provided for by section 9 of the Oaths and Declarations Act 1957.

  (3) The chief executive may disregard any information relating to a safeguard investigation that the chief executive considers to be unreliable.