Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 165C

             (1)  The following may take possession of a document produced under section 165A, and retain it for as long as is reasonably necessary:

                     (a)  a member who constitutes, or who is one of the members who constitute, the SSAT for the purposes of the review;

                     (b)  a member of the staff of the SSAT.

             (2)  The person otherwise entitled to possession of the document is entitled to be supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy certified by the Principal Member to be a true copy.

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

             (4)  Until a certified copy is supplied, the Principal Member 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.