Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00632:section:45ag
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00632
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 45AG
Character Range: 1022751–1023619

45AG  Secretary may retain documents

Retention of documents
 (1) The Secretary may take possession of a document produced under section 45AB and retain it for as long as is reasonably necessary.

Certified copy of documents
 (2) The person otherwise entitled to possession of a document produced under section 45AB is entitled to be supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy certified by the Secretary 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 Secretary 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 the whole or a part of the document.

Part 6‑2—Entry, searches and warrants