Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00498:section:48:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00498
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 48 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 54144–55552

disclosed; or
 (d) a person may be enabled to ascertain the existence or identity of a confidential source of information in relation to the enforcement or administration of an Australian law; or
 (e) there may be prejudice to the safety of a person; or
 (f) those findings or conclusions, or that evidence, would be scandalous or highly personal;
the Commission may include those findings or conclusions, or that evidence, in a separate report, and give that report to the parliamentary presiding officers with a statement of the Commission's belief.
 (7) If the parliamentary presiding officers are given a separate report under subsection (6), they:
 (a) must not cause a copy of it to be laid before the Senate or the House of Representatives; and
 (b) must make it available for inspection by Senators, members of the House of Representatives, and the person in relation to whom the allegation was investigated by the Commission; and
 (c) subject to section 82, must not produce, or disclose, the report to any other person.
 (8) Except where it is necessary to do so for the purposes of giving effect to this Act, a person is not to be required:
 (a) to produce, or disclose, a separate report given under subsection (6) to a court or tribunal; or
 (b) to produce, or disclose, a separate report given under subsection (6) under any other Australian law.

Division 4—Offences relating to investigations