42Inspections of documents in Registry

42 Inspections of documents in Registry

42 Inspections of documents in Registry

(1) Subject to the Act and this rule, a party to proceedings is, on payment of the applicable fee (if any), entitled to inspect documents in the Registry relating to the proceedings.

Note—

This rule also has effect subject to any relevant enabling legislation—see rule 4(3).

(2) Subject to the Act and this rule, a registrar may, on payment of the applicable fee (if any), permit a person who is not a party to proceedings in the Tribunal to inspect public access documents in the Registry relating to proceedings in the Tribunal that are finally determined.

(3) It is sufficient compliance with subrule (1) or (2) if the party or person is given, on payment of the applicable fee (if any), a copy of the document instead of access to the original document.

(4) A registrar may impose such conditions as the registrar considers appropriate in relation to the granting of access under this rule to a public access document (or a copy of such a document) by a person who is not a party to proceedings in the Tribunal.

(5) There is no entitlement under this rule to give or be given access to a document in the Registry (or a copy of such a document) if—

(a) a claim for privilege has been made with respect to the document but not decided by the Tribunal, or

(b) the Tribunal has decided that the document contains matter that is privileged, or

(c) the Tribunal has ordered that the whole or part of the document not be disclosed, or

(d) the disclosure of the whole or part of the document to the person is otherwise prohibited by or under the Act or any other legislation or law, or

(e) the document is or includes a note or working paper produced by or for a member in relation to any proceedings.

Note—

See, in particular, Division 6 of Part 4 of the Act, which contains provisions concerning the disclosure of information for the purposes of the Act and also section 67 of the Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997.

(6) A registrar may permit a person who would otherwise have no entitlement to be given access to a document (or a copy of a document) because of subrule (5) to inspect (or be given a copy of) parts of the document that do not contain or include the privileged material or other material which may not to be disclosed.