New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 81NA

81NA Duty of persons to assist the CYP Commission

(1) It is the duty of a prescribed person to provide the CYP Commission 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 CYP Commission reasonably requires access for the purpose of exercising its 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 CYP Commission 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 under Chapter 1A (The Government Service) of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 to hold a position or 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.