Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 264

264 No communication of official information to court

(1) A person—

(a) who is or has been—

(i) the commissioner; or

(ii) a member of the former Anti-Discrimination Tribunal; or

(iii) the registrar of the former Anti-Discrimination Tribunal; or

(iv) a member of the staff of the commission or the former Anti-Discrimination Tribunal; or

(v) a person acting under the direction or authority of the commissioner or a member of the former Anti-Discrimination Tribunal; or

(vi) a person acting under a delegation under section 244 ; and

(b) who, in that capacity, acquired information about a person’s affairs or has access to, or custody of, a document about a person’s affairs;

may not be required—

(c) to give to a court the information; or

(d) to produce in a court the document.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if giving the information or producing the document—

(a) is required for the performance of a function in connection with this Act; or

(b) is required or permitted by another Act (whether of the Commonwealth or a State).

(3) In this section—

"court" includes any tribunal, authority or person having power to require the production of documents or the answering of questions.

"produce" includes permit access to.