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Therapeutic Goods Act 1989
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#### 32JM Secretary may retain documents
(1) The Secretary may take possession of a document produced under section 32JA, 32JE, 32JF, 32JG or 32JH, and retain it for as long as is reasonably necessary.
(2) The person otherwise entitled to possession of the document is entitled to be supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy certified by the Secretary to be a true copy.
(3) The certified copy must be received in all courts and tribunals as evidence as if it were the original.
(4) Until a certified copy is supplied, the Secretary must provide the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document, or a person authorised by that person, reasonable access to the document for the purposes of inspecting and making copies of the whole or a part of the document.