Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003

On the completion or termination of an investigation, an investigator must give the Regulator any documents the investigator has taken possession of under this part.

The Regulator may—

keep the documents for the period the Regulator reasonably considers necessary to enable a decision to be made about whether or not a legal proceeding ought to be started in relation to the investigation; and

keep the documents for any further period the Regulator considers necessary to enable a legal proceeding to be started or continued.

The Regulator may, during the period the documents are kept by the Regulator—

allow a person to inspect the documents; and

allow the use of the documents for a legal proceeding started because of the investigation.

The Regulator must allow a person who would be entitled to inspect a document if it were not being kept by the Regulator to inspect the document at all reasonable times.