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Environment Protection Act 2019
153Retention and production of audit documentation
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153 Retention and production of audit documentation
(1) A person to whom a direction is given under section 142 must
retain the prescribed documents relating to an environmental audit
until the end of the last of the following periods after the audit report
was provided to the CEO:
(a) 5 years;
(b) the period prescribed by regulation for that class of audit;
(c) the period (not exceeding 10 years) determined by the CEO in
relation to the audit and notified to the person.
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(2) The CEO may direct a person to produce a document that the
person is required to retain under subsection (1).