Queensland Consolidated Acts

BUSINESS NAMES ACT 1962 - SECT 22

(1) A person may, on payment of the prescribed fee—

(a) inspect any document lodged with the registrar; or

(b) require a copy of or extract from any document that the person is entitled to inspect under paragraph (a) to be given, or given and certified, by the registrar.

(1A) A person may pay the fee, in advance or in arrears, under an arrangement approved by the chief executive.

(2) A person is not entitled under subsection (1)(a) to require the production of the original of a document if the registrar keeps by means of a mechanical, electronic or other device a record of information set out in the document and—

(a) the registrar produces to the person for inspection a writing that sets out what purports to be the contents of the document; or

(b) the registrar causes to be displayed for the person what purports to be the contents of the document and, as at the time of the displaying, the person has not asked for the production of a writing of the kind referred to in paragraph (a).

(3) Where—

(a) a person makes under subsection (1)(b) a requirement that relates to a document; and

(b) the registrar keeps by means of a mechanical, electronic or other device a record of information set out in the document; and

(c) pursuant to that requirement, the registrar gives a writing or document that sets out what purports to be the contents of—

(i) the whole of the document; or

(ii) a part of the document;

then, for the purposes of that paragraph, the registrar is taken to have given, pursuant to that requirement—

(d) if paragraph (c)(i) applies—a copy of the document; or

(e) if paragraph (c)(ii) applies—an extract from the document setting out that part of it.

(4) Where—

(a) the requirement referred to in subsection (3)(a) includes a requirement that the copy or extract be certified; and

(b) pursuant to that requirement, the registrar gives a writing or document as mentioned in subsection (3)(c);

then—

(c) the registrar may certify that the writing or document sets out the contents of the whole or part of the document, as the case requires; and

(d) the writing or document is, in any proceedings, admissible as prima facie evidence of the information contained in it.