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Copyright Act 1994

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144E: Powers of Customs officer to whom documents produced

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"What customs officers can do with documents they are shown"

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If a Customs officer is shown a document to check, they can inspect it. They can take information from the document or make a copy of it. This happens when the document is produced under an order made by a person with the power to do so, as stated in section 144D.

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Enforcement powers of Customs officers

144EPowers of Customs officer to whom documents produced

  1. A Customs officer to whom any document is produced for inspection under an order under section 144D may do 1 or more of the following:

  2. inspect the document:
    1. take extracts from the document:
      1. make copies of the document.

        Notes
        • Section 144E: inserted, on , by section 10 of the Copyright Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 72).