Confidential submissions not to be made available or reported

(1) If a person who makes a submission under section 13 has told the Inspector-General, or a member of the Inspector-General's staff, that the submission is to be kept confidential, then:

(a)

the submission, or a record of the submission, must not be made available under subsection 13(3); and

(b)

information contained in the submission must not be included in a report under section 10 or 41.

Restriction does not apply if same information is obtained by other means

(2) However, paragraph (1)(b) does not prevent the inclusion in a report of information contained in a submission if the same information has also been obtained by the Inspector-General, or a member of the Inspector-General's staff, by other means.