Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

ACT CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2008 - SECT 22J

    (1)     This section applies if—

        (a)     a person (the relevant person ) is required under this Act to—

              (i)     disclose information for a tribunal proceeding; or

              (ii)     produce a document to, or lodge a document with, the tribunal; and

        (b)     the information is, or the document states, a matter (the non-disclosable matter ) to which a non-disclosure certificate relates.

    (2)     The relevant person must disclose the information, or produce or lodge the document, as required.

    (3)     However, the tribunal must do everything reasonably necessary to ensure that—

        (a)     the non-disclosable matter is not disclosed to anyone other than a tribunal member hearing the proceeding; and

        (b)     for a document produced to or lodged with the tribunal—the document is returned to the relevant person.

    (4)     This section does not prevent the disclosure of the non-disclosable matter to a member of the staff of the tribunal in the course of the exercise of the member's functions as a staff member.

    (5)     This section is subject to section 22K and section 87 (Sending documents and things to Supreme Court).