Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00842:section:6op
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00842
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6OP
Character Range: 60492–62624

6OP  Protection of certain information given to the Disability Royal Commission
 (1) This section applies to information if:
 (a) the information was given by, or on behalf of, a natural person to the Disability Royal Commission other than for the purposes of a private session; and
 (b) the information contains any of the following:
 (i) an account of the natural person's, or another person's, experiences of violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation;
 (ii) an account of the natural person's, or another person's, experiences of systemic violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation; and
 (c) the information directly or indirectly identifies the natural person who gave the information, or on whose behalf the information was given; and
 (d) the information was treated as confidential by the Commission at all times after being given to the Commission.
 (2) Section 6OE applies:
 (a) in all cases—in relation to the natural person who gave the information to the Commission, as if the information were a statement or disclosure made by that person at a private session for the Commission; and
 (b) if the information was given to the Commission on behalf of another natural person—in relation to the other natural person as if the information were a statement or disclosure made on behalf of that other 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.
 (3A) Section 6OJ applies in relation to the information as if it were information obtained 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.
 (5) A reference in subparagraph (1)(b)(ii) to experiences of systemic violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation is a reference to experiences, or an awareness, of a policy, procedure, practice, act or omission that contributed, or may have contributed, to a natural person experiencing violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation.