12Attorney-General may request certain information from council

12 Attorney-General may request certain information from council

(1)  If requested to do so by the Attorney-General, the council is to provide the Attorney-General with the following information in relation to a specified judicial officer:

(a) whether a complaint has been made, when a complaint was made or when the matter about which a complaint was made is alleged to have happened;

(b) the allegations that form the subject matter of the complaint;

(c) the stage of the procedure for dealing with a complaint that the complaint has reached;

(d) if a complaint has been disposed of, the way in which the complaint was disposed of;

(e) other information that the council considers relevant.

(2)  Despite subsection (1) , the council is not required under that subsection to provide information about a complaint against a specified judicial officer if –

(a) a commission has not yet been appointed in respect of the complaint; and

(b) the council considers it is not in the public interest to provide the information to the Attorney-General.