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Child Protection Act 1999
sec.99ZDConfidentiality order
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### sec.99ZD Confidentiality order
The tribunal may, by order (a confidentiality order ), prohibit or restrict the disclosure to a party to a proceeding before the tribunal of all or some of the evidence given before the tribunal, or of the whole or part of the contents of a document given to, or received in evidence by, the tribunal for the review.
Subsection (3) applies for the purpose of the tribunal—
deciding whether to make a confidentiality order; or
giving effect to a confidentiality order.
The tribunal may—
exclude a party, and any representative of the party, from part of the proceeding before the tribunal; or
deal with a document in a way that ensures it is not disclosed to a party.
The tribunal may make a confidentiality order only if it is satisfied that if it does not do so—
a child is likely to be harmed; or
the safety of another person is likely to be endangered; or
there would be undue interference with the privacy of a child or another person.
The tribunal may act under subsection (1) on its own initiative or on application by a party to the proceeding before the tribunal.
A confidentiality order does not act to prohibit or limit the disclosure of material to a separate representative in a proceeding before the tribunal.
s 99ZD ins 2009 No. 24 s 18
(sec.99ZD-ssec.1) The tribunal may, by order (a confidentiality order ), prohibit or restrict the disclosure to a party to a proceeding before the tribunal of all or some of the evidence given before the tribunal, or of the whole or part of the contents of a document given to, or received in evidence by, the tribunal for the review.
(sec.99ZD-ssec.2) Subsection (3) applies for the purpose of the tribunal— deciding whether to make a confidentiality order; or giving effect to a confidentiality order.
(sec.99ZD-ssec.3) The tribunal may— exclude a party, and any representative of the party, from part of the proceeding before the tribunal; or deal with a document in a way that ensures it is not disclosed to a party.
(sec.99ZD-ssec.4) The tribunal may make a confidentiality order only if it is satisfied that if it does not do so— a child is likely to be harmed; or the safety of another person is likely to be endangered; or there would be undue interference with the privacy of a child or another person.
(sec.99ZD-ssec.5) The tribunal may act under subsection (1) on its own initiative or on application by a party to the proceeding before the tribunal.
(sec.99ZD-ssec.6) A confidentiality order does not act to prohibit or limit the disclosure of material to a separate representative in a proceeding before the tribunal.
- (a) deciding whether to make a confidentiality order; or
- (b) giving effect to a confidentiality order.
- (a) exclude a party, and any representative of the party, from part of the proceeding before the tribunal; or
- (b) deal with a document in a way that ensures it is not disclosed to a party.
- (a) a child is likely to be harmed; or
- (b) the safety of another person is likely to be endangered; or
- (c) there would be undue interference with the privacy of a child or another person.