Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00492:section:6:p134
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00492
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6 (pt 134/175)
Character Range: 510611–513210

and Torres Strait Islander corporation must take for the purposes of subsection (1).
 (3) If an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation records or stores any matters by means of a mechanical, electronic or other device, any duty imposed by this Act:
 (a) to make a book containing those matters available for inspection; or
 (b) to provide copies of the whole or a part of a book containing those matters;
is to be construed as a duty:
 (c) to make the matters available for inspection in written form; or
 (d) to provide a document containing a clear reproduction in writing of the whole or part of them.
 (4) The regulations may provide for how up to date the information contained in an instrument prepared for the purposes of subsection (3) must be.

376‑30  Evidentiary value
 (1) If:
 (a) because of this Act, a book that this Act requires to be kept or prepared is prima facie evidence of a matter; and
 (b) the book, or a part of the book, is kept or prepared by recording or storing matters (including that matter) by means of a mechanical, electronic or other device;
a written reproduction of that matter as so recorded or stored is prima facie evidence of that matter.
 (2) A writing that purports to reproduce a matter recorded or stored by means of a mechanical, electronic or other device is, unless the contrary is established, taken to be a reproduction of that matter.

376‑35  Falsification of books
 (1) A person commits an offence if the person:
 (a) is an officer, former officer, employee, former employee, member or former member of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation; and
 (b) engages in conduct that results in the concealment, destruction, mutilation or falsification of any books of or belonging to the corporation.
Penalty: 100 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, or both.
 (2) If matter that is used or intended to be used in connection with the affairs of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation is recorded or stored in an illegible form by means of a mechanical device, an electronic device or any other device, a person who:
 (a) records or stores by means of that device matter that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular; or
 (b) engages in conduct that results in the destruction, removal or falsification of matter that is recorded or stored by means of that device, or has been prepared for the purpose of being recorded or stored, or for use in compiling or recovering other matter to be recorded or stored by means of that device; or
 (c) having a duty to record or store matter by