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Version date: 9 August 2011 - onwards
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15. Order to produce documents or provide information.

(1) For the purposes of the investigation of a relevant offence, a member of the Garda Síochána may apply to a judge of the District Court for an order under this section in relation to -

(a) the making available by a person of any particular documents or documents of a particular description, or

(b) the provision by a person of particular information by answering questions or making a statement containing the information,

or both.

(2) On an application under subsection (1), a judge of the District Court, if satisfied by information on oath of the member of the Garda Síochána making the application that -

(a) there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person has possession or control of particular documents or documents of a particular description,

(b) there are reasonable grounds for believing that the documents are relevant to the investigation of the relevant offence concerned,

(c) there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the documents (or some of them) may constitute evidence of or relating to the commission of that offence, and