Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to subsection (2), if an authorised person seizes, under a warrant relating to premises:
(a) a document, film, computer file or other thing that can be readily copied; or
(b) a storage device the information in which can be readily copied;
the authorised person must, if requested to do so by the occupier of the premises or another person who apparently represents the occupier and who is present when the warrant is executed, give a copy of the thing or the information to that person as soon as practicable after the seizure.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if possession of the
document, film, computer file, thing or information by the occupier could
constitute an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or contravention of a
civil penalty provision.