Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMISSION ACT 1985 No. 35, 1985 - SECT 45

45. (1) A Commissioner, an adviser, or a person authorized by a Commissioner
to act under this section may inspect any documents produced to the
Commissioner for the purposes of an inquiry and may make copies of, or take
extracts from, the documents.

(2) A Commissioner, an adviser, or a person authorized by a Commissioner to
act under this section 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 summons under this Part, 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 Commissioner or the authorized 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 person having
possession of the document shall, at such times and places as the person
thinks appropriate, permit the person otherwise entitled to possession of the
document, or a person authorized by that person, to inspect and make copies
of, or take extracts from, the document.