New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

SECURITY INDUSTRY REGULATION 2007 - REG 39

39 Inspection of records and register

(1) A record kept by a master licensee under clause 36, any incident register kept by a master licensee under clause 37 and any other record relating to the security operations of a master licensee that is kept by the licensee, may be inspected at any reasonable time at the place of business where they are kept:

(a) by any police officer, or

(b) by any person authorised in writing by the Commissioner for the purposes of this clause,

and any police officer or person so authorised may take copies of or extracts from those records or that register.

(2) A person who is authorised to inspect any such records or register may request, by notice in writing, that a person, who is for the time being in charge of the place where the records or register are kept, produce the records or register for inspection in accordance with the request.

(3) A person to whom any such request is made must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to produce the records or register in accordance with the request.

Maximum penalty:

(a) in the case of a corporation-100 penalty units, or

(b) in the case of an individual-50 penalty units.

(4) A person who fails to produce any such records or register in accordance with such a request does not commit an offence under subclause (3) unless it is established that the person was informed by the person making the request, or that the person otherwise knew, that such a failure could constitute an offence.