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section:

     'authorised auditor' means the Auditor-General or a person authorised by the Auditor-General to exercise the powers of an authorised auditor under this section.".

Audit of subsidiaries

29. Section 55 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsections (7) and (8) and substituting the following subsections:

"(7) The Auditor-General or a person authorised by the Auditor-General may require any person to give such information in the possession of the person, or to which the person has access, as the Auditor-General or authorised person considers necessary for the purposes of the functions of the Auditor-General under this section.

"(8) A person must not refuse or fail to comply with a requirement under subsection (7) to the extent that the person is capable of complying with it.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 6 months.

"(8a) A person must not, in purported compliance with a requirement under subsection (7), knowingly give information that is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.

"(8b) A person is not excused from giving information under a requirement under subsection (7) on the grounds that the information may tend to incriminate the person, but any information given under the requirements, and any information or thing (including any document) obtained as a direct or indirect consequence of the giving of the information, is not admissible in evidence against the person in any criminal proceedings (other than proceedings for an offence against subsections (8) or (8a)).".

Aeronautical charges

30. Section 56 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection:

"(2a) This section has effect subject to the Prices Surveillance Authority Act 1983.";

(b) by inserting after subsection (4) the following subsections:

"(4a) Where the Corporation receives:

       (a) a notice under paragraph 19 (1) (b) of the Prices Surveillance Authority Act 1983 that the Prices Surveillance Authority is to hold an inquiry into the supply of services, by the Corporation, to which the proposed determination relates; or

       (b) a notice under section 28 of that Act withdrawing such a notice;

the Corporation must, in writing, inform the Minister of the notice and its contents.

    "(4b) Where the Corporation is given, under section 26 of the Prices Surveillance Authority Act 1983, a report on an inquiry held under that Act in relation to the supply of services by the Corporation, it must give a copy of the report to the Minister.";

    (c) by omitting from subsection (5) "60 days after the receipt by him or her of a notice under subsection (3) of a proposed determination" and substituting "the period referred to in subsection (6a)";

(d) by inserting after subsection (6) the following subsection:

    "(6a) The period within which the Minister