Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00358:section:79
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00358
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 79
Character Range: 36307–37657

79  Power to keep records or documents
 (1) If a record or document is produced to a Federal Safety Officer in accordance with this Division, the Federal Safety Officer may:
 (a) inspect, and make copies of, the record or document; and
 (b) keep the record or document for any period that is necessary.
 (2) While the Federal Safety Officer keeps a record or document, he or she must allow the following persons to inspect, or make copies of, the record or document at all reasonable times:
 (a) the person who produced the record or document;
 (b) any person otherwise entitled to possession of the record or document;
 (c) a person authorised by a person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).

Certified copy to be supplied to person entitled to document
 (3) A person otherwise entitled to possession of the document is entitled to be supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy that is certified, by one of the following persons, to be a true copy:
 (g) the Federal Safety Commissioner;
 (h) a Federal Safety Officer;
 (i) an APS employee assisting the Federal Safety Commissioner;
 (j) a person engaged as a consultant under section 42.

Treatment of certified copy
 (4) The certified copy must be received in all courts and tribunals as evidence as if it were the original.

Chapter 8—Enforcement

Part 1—Simplified outline of this Chapter