Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L00316:reg:37
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L00316
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 37
Character Range: 34010–35731

37  Disclosure of COI records or COI reports of Commissions etc.
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person is an employee of the Commonwealth or a member of the Defence Force; and
 (b) the person does any of the following things:
 (i) discloses information contained in the COI records or COI report of a Commission;
 (ii) discloses a document, a part of a document, or a copy of all or a part of a document, that forms part of the COI records or COI report of a Commission;
 (iii) copies a document, or a part of a document, that forms part of the COI records or COI report of a Commission; and
 (c) the information or all or the part of the document mentioned in paragraph (b) came to the knowledge, or into the possession, of the person in the course of the performance of the person's duties as an employee of the Commonwealth or member of the Defence Force; and
 (d) the information or all or the part of the document mentioned in paragraph (b) does not relate to oral evidence given in public at a hearing of a Commission.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person is permitted to disclose the information or all or the part of the document mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) under section 26.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter mentioned in subsection (2) (see section 13.3 of the Criminal Code).
 (3) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person is authorised to disclose the information or all or the part of the document mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) under section 27.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter mentioned in subsection (3) (see section 13.3 of the Criminal Code).

Division 6—Other matters