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Community Services (Complaints, Reviews and Monitoring) Act 1993
34KDuty of persons to assist the Team
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#### 34K Duty of persons to assist the Team
34K Duty of persons to assist the Team
> > (1) It is the duty of each of the following persons to provide the Team with full and unrestricted access to records that are under the person’s control, or whose production the person may, in an official capacity, reasonably require, being records to which the Team reasonably requires access for the purpose of exercising its functions—
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> > > (a) the Secretary, head, chief executive officer, senior executive or senior member of any Public Service agency, statutory body or local authority,
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> > > (b) the Commissioner of Police,
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> > > (c) the State Coroner,
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> > > (d) a medical practitioner or health care professional who, or the head of a body which, delivers health services to children,
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> > > (e) a person who, or the head of a body which, delivers welfare services to children (including family support services, children’s services, foster care or residential out-of-home care, and disability services),
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> > > (f) the principal of a non-government school (within the meaning of the [Education Act 1990](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1990-008)).
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> > (2) Access to which the Team is entitled under subsection (1) includes the right to inspect and, on request, to be provided with copies of, any record referred to in that subsection (including any document that assists to explain that record) and to inspect any non-documentary evidence associated with any such record.
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> > (3) A provision of any Act or law that restricts or denies access to records, or restricts or prohibits disclosure of information, does not prevent a person to whom subsection (1) applies from complying, or affect the person’s duty to comply, with this section.
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> > (4) In this section, record means any document or other source of information compiled, recorded or stored in written form or on film, or by electronic process, or in any other manner or by any other means.
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> **s 34K:** Ins 2011 No 60, Sch 1 \[2\]. Am 2014 No 20, Sch 1 \[13\]–\[16\]; 2015 No 15, Sch 3.12 \[4\].