s.231.1 — Production order

231.1 (1) A provincial judge or justice of the peace may at any time issue a production order in the prescribed form to a person, other than a person under investigation for an offence, requiring the person to, (a) produce documents or copies of documents, certified by affidavit to be true copies, or produce data; or (b) prepare a document based on documents or data already in existence and produce it. (2) A production order shall stipulate when, where and how the documents or data are to be produced and to whom they are to be produced. (3) A provincial judge or justice of the peace may make a production order if the provincial judge or justice is satisfied by information given under oath or affirmation that there are reasonable grounds to believe that, (a) an offence under this Act has been or is being committed; (b) the document or data will provide evidence respecting the offence or suspected offence; and (c) the person who is subject to the order has possession or control of the document or data. (4) A production order may contain such conditions as the provincial judge or justice of the peace considers advisable. (5) A copy of a document produced under this section, on proof by affidavit that it is a true copy, is admissible in evidence in any prosecution of a person for an offence under this Act and has the same probative force as the original document would have if it had been proved in the ordinary way. (6) Copies of documents produced under this section are not required to be returned to the person who provided them. (7) A person to whom a production order is directed shall comply with the order according to its terms.