Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00046:section:66
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00046
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 66
Character Range: 126682–127955

66  TEQSA may retain documents and things

TEQSA may retain documents and things etc.
 (1) If a document (including a copy of a document), or a thing, is produced to TEQSA under section 63, TEQSA:
 (a) may take possession of, and may make copies of, the document or thing; and
 (b) may retain possession of the document or thing for such period as is necessary:
 (i) for the purposes of this Act; or
 (ii) for the purposes of an investigation to which the document or thing relates; or
 (iii) to enable evidence to be secured for the purposes of a prosecution or civil penalty proceeding.

Access and certified copy to be provided
 (2) Subsections (3) to (5) apply to a document produced under paragraph 63(2)(b).
 (3) The person otherwise entitled to possession of the document is entitled to be supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy certified by TEQSA to be a true copy.
 (4) The certified copy must be received in all courts and tribunals as evidence as if it were the original.
 (5) Until a certified copy is supplied, TEQSA must, at such times and places as TEQSA thinks appropriate, permit the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document, or a person authorised by that person, to inspect and make copies of, or take extracts from, the document.