New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FAIR TRADING ACT 1987 - SECT 21

21 Inspection of documents by Secretary and others

(1) The Secretary, an authorised person or an investigator may inspect a document produced in response to a notice under section 20 of this Act or section 219 of the ACL and may make copies of, or take extracts from, the document.

(2) The Secretary or an investigator may--

(a) take possession, and

(b) retain possession for as long as is necessary for the purposes of this Act,

of a document produced in response to a notice under section 20 of this Act or section 219 of the ACL if the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document is supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy certified by an employee to be a true copy.

(3) A certified copy provided under subsection (2) is receivable in all courts as if it were the original.

(4) Until a certified copy of a document is provided under subsection (2), the person having possession of the document shall, at such times and places as he or she thinks appropriate, permit the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document, or a person authorised by the person so entitled, to inspect the document and make copies of, or take extracts from, the document.