Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to subsections ( 2) and (3), the Committee may publish or disclose any evidence taken in private.
(2) If evidence is taken in private at the request of a witness and has not already been published:
(a) the Committee or a member of the Committee must not disclose or publish any of the evidence without the consent of the witness who gave it; and
(b) any other person must not disclose or publish any of the evidence without the consent of the witness who gave it and without the authorisation of the Committee.
(3) If evidence is taken in private other than at the request of a witness and has not already been published, a member of the Committee or any other person must not disclose or publish any of the evidence without the authorisation of the Committee.
(4) The Committee may, in writing signed by the Chair, give an authorisation for the purposes of paragraph ( 2)(b) or subsection ( 3).
(5) This section has effect in spite of section 2 of the
Parliamentary Papers Act 1908 .