Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsRetention of documents
(1) The Secretary may take possession of a document produced under section 45AB and retain it for as long as is reasonably necessary.
Certified copy of documents
(2) The person otherwise entitled to possession of a document produced under section 45AB 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.