Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY ACT 1986 - SECT 20

                   Where:

                     (a)  the Inspector‑General requires access to documents in the possession of an agency for the purposes of an inquiry by the Inspector‑General under this Act; and

                     (b)  those documents have a national security classification;

the Inspector‑General shall, if he or she intends to remove those documents from the possession of the agency, make arrangements with the head of the agency for the protection of those documents while they remain in the Inspector‑General's possession and for the return of those documents.