Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2013A00024:clause:1_6oc
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2013A00024
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 6OC
Character Range: 8570–10664

6OC  Status of private session
 (1) A person who appears at a private session:
 (a) is not a witness before the Commission; and
 (b) does not give evidence to the Commission.
 (2) A private session is not a hearing of the Commission.

Powers of Commission and custody and use of records
 (3) The following provisions apply as if information, a document, record or other thing obtained by one or 2 members of the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission at a private session were produced before, delivered or given to, or otherwise obtained or received by, the Commission:
 (a) section 6F (power of Commission in relation to documents and other things);
 (b) section 6P (Commission may communicate information);
 (c) section 9 (custody and use of records of Royal Commission).
 (4) Section 9 (custody and use of records of Royal Commission) also applies as if a record produced by one or 2 members of the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission at a private session were produced by the Commission.

Application of Part 4 (offences)
 (5) Sections 6H (false or misleading evidence), 6I (bribery of witness), 6J (fraud on witness), 6L (preventing witness from attending), 6M (injury to witness) and 6N (dismissal by employers of witness) apply as if:
 (a) a person who appears, or intends to appear, at a private session were called or summoned, or appeared, as a witness before the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission; and
 (b) any information provided, or that a person intends to provide, at a private session were testimony or evidence given at a hearing before the Commission; and
 (c) any document or other thing that a person produces, or intends to produce, at a private session was produced or would have been produced because the person was required to do so under a summons, requirement or notice under section 2.
 (6) Section 6O (contempt of Royal Commission) applies in relation to a private session as if:
 (a) the member or members of the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission holding the private session were the Commission; and
 (b) the private session were proceedings of the Commission.