s 28 Power to obtain information
28.—(1) For the purpose of an investigation into a reportable matter, and pursuant to an authorisation under section 23(4), an investigator may require any person in Singapore whom the investigator has reason to believe to be acquainted with any facts or circumstances relevant to that purpose —(a) to attend before the investigator to answer, on oath or affirmation if required by the investigator, any question; and (b) to provide any document or information. (2) The power to require a person to provide any document or information under subsection (1) includes the power —(a) to require that person, or any individual who is or was an officer or employee of the person, to provide an explanation of the document or information; (b) if the document or information is not provided, to require that person or individual in paragraph (a), to state, to the best of the knowledge and belief of that person or individual (as the case may be), where the document or information is; and (c) if the information is recorded otherwise than in legible form, to require the information to be made available to the investigator in legible form. (3) An investigator is entitled without payment to keep any document or information, or make a copy or an extract of any document or information, provided to the investigator under subsection (1). (4) If any person fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (1) or (2), the court may, on the application of the Director, make such order as the court thinks fit to secure compliance with the requirement, and any such order may provide that all the costs or expenses of and incidental to the application must be borne by such person or by any officer of a company or other association who is responsible for the failure. (5) However, subsection (4) does not apply if the person or individual to whom a requirement is made under subsection (1) or (2) —(a) does not possess the document or information required; or (b) has taken all reasonable steps available to the person or individual to obtain the document or information required and has been unable to obtain it.