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StatuteCompetition and Consumer Act 2010

Section 165 — Competition and Consumer Act 2010: Inspection of, furnishing of copies of, and evidence of, documents

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(1) A person may, on application in accordance with the regulations and on payment of the prescribed fee (if any): (a) inspect any document contained in the register kept under subsection 89(3) or 95(1); and (b) obtain a copy of such a document (including, where the person so requests, a copy certified to be a true copy under the hand of a person authorised by the Commission to certify such copies). (2) Subject to subsection (3) and to any direction under subsection 106(2), a person may, on application in accordance with the regulations and on payment of the prescribed fee (if any): (a) inspect the document recording a declaration under section 50A or a determination of the Tribunal or any document furnished to, or recorded in the records of, the Tribunal in pursuance of this Act or the regulations; and (b) obtain a copy of such a document (including, where the person so requests, a copy certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar or of a Deputy Registrar). (3) Unless the Tribunal in a particular case otherwise directs, subsection (2) does not apply in relation to a document furnished to the Tribunal if the person by whom the document was furnished claims, as prescribed, that the document contains matter of a confidential nature. (4) A copy of a determination of the Commission, certified to be a true copy by a person authorised by the Commission to certify copies of determinations of the Commission, shall be received in all courts as evidence of the determination. (5) A document purporting to be a copy of a determination of the Commission and to be certified to be a true copy in accordance with subsection (4) shall, unless the contrary is established, be deemed to be such a copy and to be so certified. (6) A copy of a declaration under section 50A or a determination of, or undertaking given to, the Tribunal, certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar or of a Deputy Registrar, shall be received in all courts as evidence of the declaration, determination or undertaking.

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