209ASecurity of certain information

209A Security of certain information

209A Security of certain information

(1) Nothing in this Act or the regulations requires a person to be provided with a copy of a report or another document (or any part of the report or document) if its provision to the person may, in the opinion of a judicial member—

(a) adversely affect the security, discipline or good order of a correctional centre, or

(b) endanger the person or any other person, or

(c) jeopardise the conduct of any lawful investigation, or

(d) prejudice the public interest.

(2) Nothing in this Act or the regulations requires a person to be provided with information about the content of a report or other document, a copy of which is not (by operation of subsection (1)) required to be provided to a person, if, in the opinion of a judicial member—

(a) not providing the information to the person is necessary in the public interest, and

(b) that public interest outweighs any right to procedural fairness that may be denied by not providing the information.

s 209A: Ins 2000 No 110, Sch 1 [50]. Am 2014 No 6, Sch 1 [16].