New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL LANDS PROTECTION ACT 1998 - SECT 55K

55K Powers of auditor

(1) When exercising the functions conferred on an authority’s auditor by this Part, an authority’s auditor is entitled at all reasonable times to full and free access to the authority’s accounting records and other records necessary in order to carry out the auditor’s functions and may direct a director of the authority or a member of staff of the Livestock Health and Pest Authorities Division of the Government Service:

(a) to produce to the auditor any document relating to those records that is in that person’s custody or under that person’s control, or

(b) to grant to the auditor such authorities as may be necessary to enable the auditor to gain access to any document relating to those records that is in the custody or control of any authorised deposit-taking institution, or

(c) to answer any question,

being a document or question that, in the opinion of the auditor, is relevant to the carrying out of the auditor’s functions.

(2) An auditor may make copies of or take extracts from any document to which the auditor gains access under this section.