60. Power of Authority to call for information

Any officer of the Authority authorized in that behalf by the Board may by notice in writing, require any person within such period as shall be specified in the notice, to furnish information on the acquisition, storage, transport, transmission and use of energy in any form and cost incurred in doing so and to produce such document as shall be specified in the notice. It shall be the duty of the person who receives a notice under this subsection, to comply with such requirement within the time specified in such notice:

The information contained in a return furnished under section 59 and any information furnished or the contents of a document produced in compliance with the terms of a notice issued under this section, shall not be published or communicated by the Board to any other person, except with the consent of the person furnishing such return or information or producing such document, as the case may be, or in the course of the exercise, performance and discharge of its powers, duties and functions under this Act.