Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 1988
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70 Confidentiality
70 Confidentiality
(1) Where any evidence proposed to be given before, or the whole or a part of a document produced or proposed to be produced in evidence to, the Joint Committee relates to a secret or confidential matter, the Committee may, and at the request of the witness giving the evidence or producing the document shall—
(a) take the evidence in private, or
(b) direct that the document, or the part of the document, be treated as confidential.
(1A) If any evidence proposed to be given before, or the whole or a part of a document produced or proposed to be produced in evidence to, the Joint Committee relates to the proposed appointment of a person as Commissioner or Inspector, the Committee must (despite any other provision of this section)—
(a) take the evidence in private, or
(b) direct that the document, or the part of the document, be treated as confidential.
(1B) Despite any other provision of this section except subsection (6), the Joint Committee must not, and a person (including a member of the Committee) must not, disclose any evidence or the contents of a document or that part of a document to which subsection (1A) applies.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or imprisonment for 3 months, or both.
(1C) Despite any other provision of this section except subsection (6), the Joint Committee (including a member of the Committee) must not, and any person assisting the Committee or present during the deliberations of the Committee must not, except in accordance with section 64A (3), disclose whether or not the Joint Committee or any member of the Joint Committee has vetoed, or proposes to veto, the proposed appointment of a person as Commissioner or Inspector.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or imprisonment for 3 months, or both.
(2) Where a direction under subsection (1) applies to a document or part of a document produced in evidence to the Joint Committee, the contents of the document or part shall, for the purposes of this section, be taken to be evidence given by the person producing the document and taken by the Committee in private.
(3) Where, at the request of a witness, evidence is taken by the Joint Committee in private—
(a) the Committee shall not, without the consent in writing of the witness, and