ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1902 - SECT 6OQ Protection of certain information given to the Defence and Veteran Suicide Royal Commission
ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1902 - SECT 6OQ
Protection of certain information given to the Defence and Veteran Suicide Royal Commission(1) This section applies to information if:
(a) the information was given by, or on behalf of, a natural person to the Defence and Veteran Suicide Royal Commission other than for the purposes of a private session; and
(b) the information contains any of the following:
(i) an account of a person's experiences of suicide, suicidality or poor mental health as a defence member or veteran;
(ii) an account of a person's experiences of systemic issues as a defence member or veteran; and
(c) the information directly or indirectly identifies the natural person who gave the information, or on whose behalf the information was given; and
(d) the information was treated as confidential by the Commission at all times after being given to the Commission.
(2) Section 6OE applies:
(a) in all cases--in relation to the natural person who gave the information to the Commission, as if the information were a statement or disclosure made by that person at a private session for the Commission; and
(b) if the information was given to the Commission on behalf of another natural person--in relation to the other natural person as if the information were a statement or disclosure made on behalf of that other 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 6OJ applies in relation to the information as if it were information obtained at a private session for the Commission.
(5) 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.
(6) A reference in subparagraph (1)(b)(ii) to experiences of systemic issues is a reference to experiences, or an awareness, of a policy, procedure, practice, act or omission that contributed, or may have contributed, to a person's suicide, suicidality or poor mental health.