Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) An authorised officer may, for the purposes of an authorised investigation, ask a person:
(a) to answer specified questions or provide specified information; or
(b) to produce specified relevant material or relevant material of a specified kind, in the person's possession or control.
(2) The request may be made:
(a) if an oral response is required – orally; or
(b) in any other case by notice given to the person to whom the request is addressed.
(3) The authorised officer must disclose to the person to whom the request is addressed:
(a) that the request is made for the purposes of an authorised investigation; and
(b) if the person to whom the request is addressed is under investigation – that fact;
(but the authorised officer is not required to make any further disclosure about the nature or purpose of the investigation).
(4) A person requested, by notice under this section, to provide written information must, if the notice requires, verify the information by statutory declaration.
(5) A request made by one authorised officer may be complied with by providing the information or relevant material to another authorised officer (whether or not both are present at the same time).
(6) The person to whom a request is made must comply with it to the extent the person is able to do so and, if asked to answer a question, must do so to the best of the person's knowledge, information and belief.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.