(1)  Subject to this section, where a person who believes that a recording authority is or may be keeping a prescribed record in relation to him makes a written application to the authority requesting it to produce for his inspection such prescribed records as it has in relation to him, the authority shall, within 14 days after the receipt of the application, comply with the request or, if it has no such records, notify him in writing that it has no prescribed records relating to him.

(2)  A recording authority may, before complying with a request in an application made under subsection (1) , require the applicant to produce reasonable evidence of his identity.

(3)  A recording authority shall take reasonable steps to ensure that a prescribed record which a person is entitled to inspect under this section is produced in a form that is readily intelligible to that person and, if he so requests, provide him with a copy of the record or any part of the record that he specifies.

(4)  A person who makes a request in an application under subsection (1) is entitled to be provided with a copy of a prescribed record relating to him without charge except where he has been provided under that subsection with such a copy within the period of 12 months immediately preceding the request, in which case he is only so entitled if he pays to the recording authority the prescribed fee.

(5)  A request in an application made under subsection (1) may be made by an Australian legal practitioner on behalf of a person to whom a prescribed record relates.