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Co-operatives (Adoption of National Law) Act 2012
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#### 513 Power to require production of documents
513 Power to require production of documents
> > (1) An inspector may require a person to produce to the inspector, for inspection, a document this Law requires the person to hold or keep.
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> > (2) The person must produce the document, unless the person has a reasonable excuse for not producing it.
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> > Maximum penalty—$12,000 or imprisonment for 1 year, or both.
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> > (3) The inspector may keep a document that is produced—
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> > > (a) to take an extract from the document; or
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> > > (b) to make a copy of it.
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> > (4) The inspector must return the document to the person as soon as practicable after taking the extract or making the copy.