Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00044:section:171
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00044
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 171
Character Range: 396532–397315

171  Authorised officer may retain documents
 (1) An authorised officer may take possession of a document produced under this Part, and retain it for as long as is reasonably necessary.
 (2) The person otherwise entitled to possession of the document is entitled to be supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy certified by the authorised officer to be a true copy.
 (3) The certified copy must be received in all courts and tribunals as evidence as if it were the original.
 (4) Until a certified copy is supplied, the authorised officer must provide the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document, or a person authorised by that person, reasonable access to the document for the purposes of inspecting and making copies of, or taking extracts from, the document.