New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DUST DISEASES TRIBUNAL ACT 1989 - SECT 22

22 Inspection and retention of records

(1) The Tribunal--

(a) may inspect any document or statement produced before it and retain it for such period as it thinks necessary for the purposes of the proceedings in relation to which it was produced, and

(b) may make copies of the document or statement or any part of the document or statement.

(2) If a document or statement is produced before, and retained by, the Tribunal, the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document or statement is, on request, entitled to be supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy of the document or statement certified by the registrar to be a true copy.

(3) A document or statement so certified is admissible as evidence in all courts as if it were the original document or statement.

(4) If, in accordance with subsection (2), a person is entitled to be supplied with a copy of a document or statement, the person, or a person authorised by the person, may, at such times and places as the registrar directs, inspect and make copies of, or take extracts from, the document or statement.