ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1902 - SECT 6ON Protection of certain information given to the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission

ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1902 - SECT 6ON

  (1)   This section applies to information if:

  (a)   the information was given by, or on behalf of, a natural person to the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission other than for the purposes of a private session; and

  (b)   the information contains an account of:

  (i)   the natural person's experiences of child sexual abuse in an institutional context; or

  (ii)   what happened to other people regarding child sexual abuse in an institutional context; and

  (c)   the information identifies the natural person who gave the information, or on whose behalf the information was given; and

  (d)   the Commission indicated that the information, if given, would be treated as confidential; and

  (e)   the information was treated as confidential by the Commission.

  (2)   Section   6OE applies in relation to the information as if it were a statement or disclosure made by the natural person at a private session for the Commission.

  (3)   Sections   6OH, 6OK and 6OL apply in relation to the information as if it were information given by the natural person at a private session for the Commission.

  (4)   Section   6OM applies in relation to the information as if it were a record that contains information obtained at a private session for the Commission.