Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CO-OPERATIVE SCHEME LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 92 of 1989 - SECT 5

5. After section 31 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Obtaining information from certain registers

"31A. (1) In this section:
'data processor' means a mechanical, electronic or other device;
'register' means a register kept by the Commission under this Act;
'search' includes inspect.

"(2) The Commission may permit a person to search, otherwise than by using a
data processor, a prescribed register.

"(3) The Commission may permit a person to search a prescribed register by
using a data processor in order to obtain prescribed information from the
register.

"(4) The Commission may make available to a person prescribed information (in
the form of a document or otherwise) that the Commission has obtained from a
prescribed register by using a data processor.

"(5) Nothing in this section limits:

   (a)  a power or function that the Commission has apart from this section;
        or

   (b)  a right that a person has apart from this section.".