79Power to keep records or documents

79 Power to keep records or documents

(1) If a record or document is produced to a Federal Safety Officer in accordance with this Division, the Federal Safety Officer may: (a) inspect, and make copies of, the record or document; and (b) keep the record or document for any period that is necessary. (2) While the Federal Safety Officer keeps a record or document, he or she must allow the following persons to inspect, or make copies of, the record or document at all reasonable times: (a) the person who produced the record or document; (b) any person otherwise entitled to possession of the record or document; (c) a person authorised by a person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b). Certified copy to be supplied to person entitled to document (3) A person otherwise entitled to possession of the document is entitled to be supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy that is certified, by one of the following persons, to be a true copy: (g) the Federal Safety Commissioner; (h) a Federal Safety Officer; (i) an APS employee assisting the Federal Safety Commissioner; (j) a person engaged as a consultant under section 42. Treatment of certified copy (4) The certified copy must be received in all courts and tribunals as evidence as if it were the original.

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