National Commission for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People Act 2026

This section applies if a person produces a physical document under section 39.

The National Commissioner may:

inspect the document; and

make and retain copies of the whole or a part of the document.

The National Commissioner may take possession of the document and retain it for as long as is reasonably necessary.

The person otherwise entitled to possession of the document is entitled to be supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy certified by the National Commissioner to be a true copy.

The certified copy must be received in all courts and tribunals as evidence as if it were the original.

Until a certified copy is supplied, the National Commissioner must provide the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document, or a person authorised by that person, reasonable access to the document for the purposes of inspecting and making copies of the whole or a part of the document.