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Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002
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217 Right to inspect seized documents
217 Right to inspect seized documents
Unless a Judge of the Local Court otherwise orders, a police officer who, in exercising a function conferred by or under this Act, seizes a document must allow a person who would be entitled to the document—
(a) to inspect it at any reasonable times and from time to time, and
(b) to take extracts from or make copies of it.
s 217: Am 2025 No 61, Sch 2.58[4].