Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00797:clause:1_6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00797
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 6
Character Range: 168082–169993

6  Publication of evidence or contents of documents
 (1) Subject to this clause, the Committee may disclose or publish, or authorise the disclosure or publication of:
 (a) any evidence taken by the Committee; or
 (b) the contents of any document produced to the Committee.
 (2) If the evidence is taken, or the document is produced, in a review conducted in private, the Committee must not disclose or publish, or authorise the disclosure or publication of the evidence or the contents of the document without the written authority of:
 (a) if the person who gave the evidence or produced the document is a staff member of an agency—the agency head; or
 (b) in any other case—the person who gave the evidence or produced the document.
 (3) Subclause (2) does not apply:
 (a) if the evidence, or the contents of the document, have already been lawfully disclosed or published; or
 (b) in relation to a matter of which the Committee has become aware otherwise than because of the giving of any evidence before, or the production of any document to, the Committee.
 (4) The Committee must not disclose or publish, or authorise the disclosure or publication of, the evidence, or the contents of the document, if the disclosure or publication would disclose a matter that the Committee is not, under clause 7, permitted to disclose in a report to a House of the Parliament.
 (5) The Committee may obtain the advice of the responsible Minister or responsible Ministers concerned as to whether the disclosure or publication might disclose a matter of that kind.
 (6) This clause has effect despite section 2 of the Parliamentary Papers Act 1908.
 (7) If the evidence, or the contents of the document, are disclosed or published under this clause, section 4 of the Parliamentary Papers Act 1908 applies to the disclosure or publication as if it were a publication under an authority given under section 2 of that Act.