57.1. To ensure the recovery of an amount owed, the Minister may, by a demand notified in accordance with the second paragraph, require that a person, whether or not that person owes an amount under this Act, file, within such reasonable time as the Minister may specify and in accordance with the second paragraph, any information or any document.
The notification or filing to which the first paragraph refers may be made(1) by registered mail;
(2) by personal service; or
(3) by a technological means, where the person is a bank or a savings and credit union, within the meaning assigned to those expressions by section 1 of the Taxation Act (chapter I-3), that has provided written consent to be notified by such a means. The filing by way of a technological means of any information or any document by a bank or a savings and credit union must be made in accordance with the terms and conditions specified by the Minister.
The person to whom the demand is addressed must comply within the time specified, whether or not the person has already filed such information or document or a response to a similar demand made under this Act.
2001, c. 55, s. 12; 2015, c. 21, s. 539; I.N. 2016-01-01 (NCCP); 2023, c. 102023, c. 10, s. 131.