Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

ACT CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2008 - SECT 22N

    (1)     This section applies if—

        (a)     a 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; and

        (c)     a Supreme Court proceeding begins in relation to the tribunal proceeding.

Note     This section also applies to a certificate in relation to a reasons statement mentioned in s 22E (3) (a) (see s 22F).

    (2)     The Supreme Court must do everything reasonably necessary to ensure that the non-disclosable matter is not disclosed to anyone other than a member of the court as constituted for the proceeding.

Note     At the end of the Supreme Court proceeding, the court must return a document or thing that was sent to the court by the tribunal to the tribunal (see s 87).

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

    (4)     In this section:

"Supreme Court proceeding—"see section 87.