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Federal Safety Commissioner Act 2022
79Power to keep records or documents
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#### 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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