New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 12B

12B Copies of documents

(1) A right under this Act to inspect a document includes the right to take away a copy of the document.

(2) Accordingly, a council must have a copy of all relevant documents available for copying by, or on behalf of, any person who asks for one.

(3) The copies may be taken away either free of charge or on payment of reasonable copying charges, as the council chooses (except as otherwise specifically provided by or under this Act).

(4) This section does not apply to the following:

(a) the residential roll of electors referred to in section 302 (1),

(b) the information sheets of candidates for election referred to in section 308,

(c) building certificates.

Note: Section 174 (3) provides that a person may obtain a copy of a building certificate from the council’s record with the consent of the owner of the building (and on payment of the approved fee).