I am sure the Minister will not have any great objection to this amendment and to amendment No. 24 which is related. Subsection (2) of section 24 reads:
If any person wilfully delays an officer of the Minister in the exercise of any power under this section, or fails—
—here I want to have inserted the words "without reasonable cause"—
—to produce any record or other document which he is required in pursuance of this section to produce...
That is the first part of it. Any one of us could visualise a situation where it might not be reasonable to expect somebody to have on tap and produce a record or other document which is required. This is a reasonable thing to insert in the subsection. A person should be protected and cannot unreasonably be held to have committed an offence. I am sure the Parliamentary Secretary will agree that this is desirable. The same applies to amendment No. 24. The subsection goes on to say:
...or refuses to give to the officer any information which such officer may reasonably require with regard to the entries in such record or document...
At the time he is approached, he might not have the information for which the officer was looking and it would be quite unreasonable to have it said that he committed an offence. That danger should be removed.