Royal Commissions Amendment (Private Sessions) Act 2019 (64 of 2019)

Schedule 1   Main amendments

Royal Commissions Act 1902

41   At the end of Division 3 of Part 4

Add:

6ON Protection of certain information given to the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission

(1) This section applies to information if:

(a) the information was given by, or on behalf of, a natural person to the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission other than for the purposes of a private session; and

(b) the information contains an account of:

(i) the natural person's experiences of child sexual abuse in an institutional context; or

(ii) what happened to other people regarding child sexual abuse in an institutional context; and

(c) the information identifies the natural person who gave the information, or on whose behalf the information was given; and

(d) the Commission indicated that the information, if given, would be treated as confidential; and

(e) the information was treated as confidential by the Commission.

(2) Section 6OE applies in relation to the information as if it were a statement or disclosure made by the natural person at a private session for the Commission.

(3) Sections 6OH, 6OK and 6OL apply in relation to the information as if it were information given by the natural person at a private session for the Commission.

(4) Section 6OM applies in relation to the information as if it were a record that contains information obtained at a private session for the Commission.