COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 156 Inspection of documents by Commission

COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 156

  (1)   A member of the Commission, or a person authorise d by a member of the Commission, may inspect a document produced in pursuance of a notice under section   155 or 155A and may make copies of, or take extracts from, the document.

  (2)   The Commission may, for the purposes of this Act, take, and retain for as long as is necessary for those purposes, possession of a document produced in pursuance of a notice under section   155 or 155A but the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document is entitled to be supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy certified by a member of the Commission under his or her hand to be a true copy and the certified copy shall be received in all courts as evidence as if it were the original.

  (3)   Until such a certified copy is supplied, the Commission shall, at such times and places as it thinks appropriate, permit the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document, or a person authorised by that person, to inspect and make copies of or take extracts from the document.