(1) For parliamentary purposes or for the proper conduct of the Minister's public business, the Minister is entitled to have information in the possession of the Trust and to have and retain copies of documents.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) the Minister may ¾

(a) request the Trust to furnish information to the Minister;

(b) request the Trust to give the Minister access to information;

(c) for the purposes of paragraph (b) make use of the staff available to the Trust to obtain the information and furnish it to the Minister.

(3) The Trust shall comply with a request under subsection (2) and make the necessary staff and facilities available to the Minister for the purposes of paragraph (c) of that subsection.

(4) In this section ¾

}document~ includes any data that is recorded or stored mechanically, photographically, or electronically and any tape, disc or other device or medium on which it is recorded or stored;

}information~ means documents or other information relating to the functions of the Trust being information, as so defined, specified, or of a description specified, by the Minister;

}parliamentary purposes~ means the purpose of ¾

(a) answering a question asked in a House of Parliament; or

(b) complying with a written law, or an order or resolution of a House of Parliament, that requires information to be furnished to a House of Parliament.

[Section 41D inserted by No. 91 of 1990 s.12.]