Safeguard Measures Act 2018 · As enacted
15. Director-General’s power to call for information from certain person
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
In the conduct of an investigation under this
Act, the Director-General may request for any information considered relevant for purpose of conducting such investigation, from any customs officer, company, forwarder, other enterprise, both public and private or person, and it shall be the duty of such officer, company, forwarder or enterprise, as the case may be, to provide the information requested for within such time as may be specified by the
Director-General.
The Director-General may, where he considers appropriate, verify or obtain further details on information received by him under section 14 and subsection (1) of this section, and where any such verification is carried out, the
Director-General shall prepare a report describing the findings of such verification and such report, excluding any confidential information obtained, shall be placed in the public file maintained under section 19.
Where in an investigation -
if no hearing is requested for, any participating interested party may submit written arguments concerning any matter it considers relevant to the investigation, not later than a period of one and a half months before the date proposed for the determination regarding serious injury or threat thereof and causation; or
if a hearing is held, not later than a period of ten days before the scheduled date of the hearing, any participating interested party may submit written submissions and information concerning any matter it considers relevant to the investigation.
A participating interested party shall -
where no hearing is requested for, after the expiry of the period allowed for the submission of written arguments; or
where a hearing is held, following such hearing, have a further period not exceeding ten days to submit any further written responses to the written submissions of any other participating interested parties, or submit further written arguments in response to submissions and information presented at the hearing, as the case may be.