Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT COMMITTEE ACT 1951 - SECT 11

  (1)   Subject to subsection   ( 2), the Committee must take all evidence in public.

  (2)   If, in the Committee's opinion, evidence relates to a secret or confidential matter:

  (a)   if the witness giving the evidence requests the Committee to do so--the Committee must take the evidence in private; or

  (b)   in any other case--the Committee may take the evidence in private.