699Confidentiality of high risk panel meetings and information

699 Confidentiality of high risk panel meetings and information

(1) Any meeting of the high risk panel is confidential.

(2) Despite subsection (1), a member of the high risk panel is not prevented from discussing a high risk panel meeting or discussing information obtained during a meeting with any other panel member or a person from that member's organisation—

(a) for the purposes of performing a function or exercising a power of the panel; or

(b) if otherwise authorised or permitted under this Act or any other Act or law.

(3) Subject to any suppression order, nothing in Part 15.2 prevents the disclosure of terrorism risk information to a member of a high risk panel if the disclosure is necessary for the performance of the functions of the panel.

Chapter 15—Sharing of confidential information

Part 15.1—Sharing of confidential information

700 Application of Part

This Part does not apply to the collection, use or disclosure of confidential information that—

(a) a relevant person holds in connection with the performance of any function or duty or exercise of any powers under Chapter 3; or

(b) is terrorism risk information.