Queensland Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1977 - SECT 14Q

14Q Application of division

(1) This division applies if—

(a) a person (the
"informant" ) gives information (the
"provided information" ) to a journalist, in the normal course of the journalist’s activities as a journalist, in the expectation the information may be published in a news medium; and

(b) the journalist promises the informant not to disclose the informant’s identity as the source of the information.

(2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that this division does not prevent a person from disclosing the informant’s identity as the source of the provided information.