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46 to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $100 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.

(5) In this section, “energy supplier” means any of the following:
 * (a) any gas licensee under the Gas Act (Cap. 116A);
 * (b) any supplier of oil, fuel or other type of energy.

General power to require information or documents

50.—(1) The power of an authorised officer to require a person to provide any information or document under section 48 or 49 includes the power—
 * (a) to require the person, or any person who is or was an officer or employee of that person, to provide an explanation of the information or document;
 * (b) if the information or document is not provided, to require that person to state, to the best of the person’s knowledge and belief, from whom the information or document may be obtained or where it is;
 * (c) if the information is recorded otherwise than in legible form, without payment, to require the information to be provided in legible form; and
 * (d) in the case of a document, without payment—
 * (i) to inspect, copy, or take extracts from, the document and, in relation to a document kept in electronic form, to inspect, copy, or take extracts from the document in legible form;
 * (ii) to take possession of the document if in the opinion of the authorised officer—
 * (A) the inspection, copying or extraction cannot reasonably be performed without taking possession of the document;