20ATabling of report

20A Tabling of report

(1) Subject to subregulation (2), as soon as practicable after any disciplinary or administrative action has been taken as a consequence of a report of a General Court of Inquiry, the Minister must table the following in each House of the Parliament: (a) the report; (b) the recommendations of the General Court of Inquiry; (c) a statement setting out details of the action (if any) taken to implement the recommendations; (d) if a recommendation is rejected, a statement of the reasons for rejecting the recommendation. (2) If the Minister is of the opinion that disclosure of information contained in the report or other material to be tabled under subregulation (1) would be contrary to the public interest because of a reason or combination of reasons mentioned in subregulation (3), the Minister may decide: (a) having regard to the amount of information of that kind in the report—not to table the report; or (b) to leave the information out of the report or other material to be tabled. (3) For subregulation (2), the reasons are that: (a) the information relates to a secret process of manufacture; or (b) disclosure of the information would be prejudicial to the defence of the Commonwealth; or (c) disclosure of the information would unreasonably affect the privacy of an individual. (4) If the Minister decides not to table the report, or to leave out information from material to be tabled under subregulation (1), the material that is tabled (or, if no material is tabled, a separate statement that itself must be tabled) must set out: (a) for a decision not to table the report—that fact; and (b) for a decision to leave out information: (i) that fact (although the information that has been left out does not have to be identified); and (ii) the reason or reasons why the information was left out.

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