Administrative Review Tribunal (Consequential and Transitional Provisions No. 1) Act 2024 (38 of 2024)

Schedule 2   Home Affairs

Part 1   Main amendments

Migration Act 1958

188   Section 378

Repeal the section, substitute:

378 Protected information and documents

(1) An entrusted person must not be required to produce or disclose a protected document, or protected information, to a parliament if:

(a) the document or information relates to a reviewable protection decision; and

(b) the production or disclosure is not necessary for the purposes of carrying into effect the provisions of the ART Act or another enactment conferring powers on the ART.

(2) Subsection (1) applies despite subsection 274(1) of the ART Act.

(3) In this section:

entrusted person has the same meaning as in the ART Act.

parliament means:

(a) a House of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory; or

(b) a committee of a House or the Houses of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory.

protected document has the same meaning as in the ART Act.

protected information has the same meaning as in the ART Act.