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(c) a requirement under this Act to produce accounts or records to the Auditor-General or to another person shall be taken to include a requirement to produce, in a case where the accounts or records are kept by means of an information storage device, the information contained in the accounts or records, or in such extracts from the accounts or records as the Auditor-General or other person requests—
          (i) in a form directed by the Auditor-General or other person; or
          (ii) if the Auditor-General or other person has not given a direction for the purposes of sub-paragraph (i)—in a form that can be understood by sight; and
      (d) a provision of this Act authorizing or requiring the Auditor-General to inspect, examine or audit accounts or records shall, in a case where the accounts or records are kept by means of an information storage device, be taken to include a requirement authorizing or requiring the Auditor-General to be provided with the information contained in the accounts or records, or in such extracts from the accounts or records as the Auditor-General requests—
          (i) in a form directed by the Auditor-General; or
          (ii) if the Auditor-General has not given a direction for the purposes of sub-paragraph (i)—in a form that can be understood by sight.
"(7) Without limiting the powers of the Auditor-General, or of a person authorized by the Auditor-General, under any other provision of this Act, where the Auditor-General, or a person authorized by the Auditor-General, is entitled, under another provision of this Act, to inspect, examine or audit any accounts or records and those accounts or records are kept by means of an information storage device, the Auditor-General or person so authorized is entitled to be provided with such reasonable facilities for access to that information storage device as he deems necessary for the performance of his functions under this Act.".

Application of Act
4. (1) Section 2a of the Principal Act is amended—
      (a) by inserting in sub-section (1) "the Northern Territory or" before "an external Territory"; and
      (b) by omitting from sub-section (1) "any such Territory" and substituting " the Northern Territory or an external Territory".

(2) Section 2a of the Principal Act is further amended by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following sub-section:
"(2) Subject to any modifications and exceptions specified in regulations made in pursuance of section 63 or 63a, this Act applies outside Australia and the Territories to and in relation to every person who is or has been an officer, whether or not he is an Australian citizen, and the functions, powers, duties and responsibilities conferred or imposed by this Act on the Minister, the Auditor-General and other specified persons and authorities in