New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRIVATE HEALTH FACILITIES ACT 2007 - SECT 51B

51B Requirement to provide information and documents

(1) An authorised officer may, by notice in writing, direct a person to furnish to the authorised officer such information or documents as the authorised officer requires in connection with the exercise of the authorised officer's functions.

(2) A notice under this section must specify the manner in which, and the time by which, the information or documents to which the notice relates must be furnished.

(3) A notice under this section may only require a person to furnish existing documents that are in the person's possession or that are within the person's power to obtain lawfully.

(4) The authorised officer to whom a document is furnished under this section may take copies of it.

(5) If any document required to be furnished under this section is in electronic, mechanical or other form, the notice requires the document to be furnished in written form, unless the notice otherwise provides.