46Inspection of documents

46 Inspection of documents

(1) A person authorised by a Regulatory Authority to act under this subsection may inspect a document produced pursuant to a notice under section 45 and may make copies of, or take extracts from, the document. (2) A person authorised by a Regulatory Authority to act under this subsection may, for the purposes of this Act, take, and retain for so long as is necessary for those purposes, possession of a document produced pursuant to a notice under section 45 but the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document is entitled to be supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy certified by the authorised person to be a true copy and the certified copy shall be received in all courts as evidence as if it were the original. (3) Where such a certified copy of a document is supplied, the authorised person having possession of the document shall, at such times and places as the authorised person thinks appropriate, permit the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document, or a person authorised by that person, to inspect and make copies of, or take extracts from, the document.