sec.29Reports

sec.29 Reports

By 31 October in each year, the principal commissioner must prepare, and give to the Minister, a report about the following matters for the previous financial year— the results of analysing information included in the register; the commissioner’s activities relating to research under section 26 ; any persons given access to information under section 28 ; any recommendations the commissioner has made under section 26 about laws, policies, practices or services; the extent to which previous recommendations of the commissioner have been implemented. The principal commissioner may also prepare, and give to the Minister, other reports arising from the performance of the commissioner’s functions under section 26 . The principal commissioner must not include in a report any comments adverse to an entity identifiable from the report, unless the entity has been given a copy of the comments and a reasonable opportunity to respond to them. If the entity gives the principal commissioner a written statement in response to the comments and asks that the statement be included in the report, the commissioner must include the statement in the report. However, the principal commissioner is not required by subsection (4) to include a statement so far as it contains information that the commissioner considers should not be publicly disclosed on the ground that— disclosure of the information may adversely affect the outcome of an inquiry or investigation by a complaints entity or the Queensland Police Service, or an investigatory body established under a law of the Commonwealth; or the information concerns a matter before a court. It is a lawful excuse for the publication of any defamatory statement made in a report that the publication is made in good faith and is, or purports to be, made for this Act. Within 14 sitting days after receiving a report under this section, the Minister must table it in the Legislative Assembly. s 29 amd 2020 No. 2 s 22 (sec.29-ssec.1) By 31 October in each year, the principal commissioner must prepare, and give to the Minister, a report about the following matters for the previous financial year— the results of analysing information included in the register; the commissioner’s activities relating to research under section 26 ; any persons given access to information under section 28 ; any recommendations the commissioner has made under section 26 about laws, policies, practices or services; the extent to which previous recommendations of the commissioner have been implemented. (sec.29-ssec.2) The principal commissioner may also prepare, and give to the Minister, other reports arising from the performance of the commissioner’s functions under section 26 . (sec.29-ssec.3) The principal commissioner must not include in a report any comments adverse to an entity identifiable from the report, unless the entity has been given a copy of the comments and a reasonable opportunity to respond to them. (sec.29-ssec.4) If the entity gives the principal commissioner a written statement in response to the comments and asks that the statement be included in the report, the commissioner must include the statement in the report. (sec.29-ssec.5) However, the principal commissioner is not required by subsection (4) to include a statement so far as it contains information that the commissioner considers should not be publicly disclosed on the ground that— disclosure of the information may adversely affect the outcome of an inquiry or investigation by a complaints entity or the Queensland Police Service, or an investigatory body established under a law of the Commonwealth; or the information concerns a matter before a court. (sec.29-ssec.6) It is a lawful excuse for the publication of any defamatory statement made in a report that the publication is made in good faith and is, or purports to be, made for this Act. (sec.29-ssec.7) Within 14 sitting days after receiving a report under this section, the Minister must table it in the Legislative Assembly.