New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 98

98 Duty of persons to assist the Children's Guardian

(1) It is the duty of a prescribed person to provide the Children's Guardian with full and unrestricted access to records that are under the person's control, or whose production the person may, in an official capacity, reasonably require, being records to which the Children's Guardian reasonably requires access for the purpose of exercising functions under this Part.

(2) A provision of any Act or law that restricts or denies access to records does not prevent a person to whom subsection (1) applies from complying, or affect the person's duty to comply, with that subsection.

(3) Access to which the Children's Guardian is entitled under subsection (1) includes--

(a) the right to inspect and, on request, to be provided with copies of, any record referred to in that subsection, and

(b) the right to inspect any non-documentary evidence associated with any such record.

(4) In this section--

"prescribed person" means any of the following persons--

(a) the Registrar or other proper officer of a court,

(b) the Commissioner of Police,

(c) any person holding a statutory office prescribed by the regulations,

(d) any person employed in the Public Service and assigned to a role, or holding an office, prescribed by the regulations.

"record" means any document or other source of information compiled, recorded or stored in written form or on film, or by electronic process, or in any other manner or by any other means.