Corporation may require Commissioner to produce documents.

1. (1) The Corporation may at any time require the Commissioner—
   • (a) to produce any record, correspondence, plan or other document which is in his possession or under his control as Commissioner or which is recorded or filed in his office or in the office of any municipal officer or servant subordinate to him;
   • (b) to furnish any return, plan, estimate, statement, account or statistics, concerning or connected with any matter appertaining to the administration of this Act or the Municipal Government of the City;
   • (c) to furnish a report by himself, or to obtain from the head of a department subordinate to him and furnish, with his own remarks thereon, a report upon any subject concerning or connected with the administration of this Act or the Municipal Government of the City.
2. (2) Every such requisition shall be complied with by the Commissioner without unreasonable delay and it shall be incumbent on every municipal officer and servant to obey any order made by the Commissioner in pursuance of any such requisition.
3. (3) If, on any such requisition being made, the Commissioner shall declare that

than the second ordinary meeting of the Corporation after he shall have declared as aforesaid. If at such meeting, or any meeting subsequent thereto, the Corporation shall repeat the requisition and it shall then still appear to the Commissioner inexpedient to comply therewith, he shall make a declaration to that effect. Thereupon it shall be lawful for the Corporation to form a committee consisting of the Mayor, one Councillor chosen by the Corporation and one member elected by the Standing Committee from among its members which shall engage to keep secret the existence and purport of all such documents and matters as may be disclosed to them except as hereinafter provided. The

Commissioner shall be bound to make known and to disclose to the said committee all writings and matters within his knowledge or under his control or otherwise available to him and included within the said requisition and the said committee having taken cognizance of the information, writings and matters so laid before shall determine by a majority of votes whether the whole or any part, and which part, if any, of such matters ought to be disclosed to the Corporation or kept secret for a defined time, which decision shall be conclusive and shall be reported to the Corporation at the next, ordinary meeting thereof.

1. (4) At such meeting the Commissioner when carrying on to do so by the Corporation, shall produce any documents and make any report or statement that may be required in order to give effect to the decision of the committee.