121Public release of safety investigation reports and recommendations

121  Public release of safety investigation reports and recommendations

 (1) A safety investigator may, at any time during the course of a safety investigation, make recommendations to the Minister.

 (2) The Minister may cause the recommendations to be made public if the Minister considers that it is in the interests of safety to do so.

 (3) The Minister may publicly release all or part of any safety investigation report submitted to the Minister.

Note: Subsections (2) and (3) constitute authorisations for the purposes of the Privacy Act 1988 and other laws.

 (4) The Minister must not publicly release all or part of a safety investigation report if the release might prejudice the rights of any person in any criminal proceedings started in relation to the matter.