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PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGES ACT 1987 - SECT 13

Unauthorised disclosure of evidence

    A person shall not, without the authority of a House or a committee, publish or disclose:

  (a)   a document that has been prepared for the purpose of submission, and submitted, to a House or a committee and has been directed by a House or a committee to be treated as evidence taken in camera; or

  (b)   any oral evidence taken by a House or a committee in camera, or a report of any such oral evidence;

unless a House or a committee has published, or authorised the publication of, that document or that oral evidence.

Penalty:  

  (a)   in the case of a natural person, imprisonment for 6 months or 50 penalty units ; or

  (b)   in the case of a corporation, 250 penalty units .


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