Bill
Royal Commissions Amendment (Private Sessions) Bill 2019
passed, as at 2019-09-13. Prime Minister portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Prime Minister
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-07-25
- second reading — 2019-07-25
- second reading — 2019-07-31
- second reading — 2019-07-31
- third reading — 2019-07-31
- introduced — 2019-07-31
- second reading — 2019-07-31
- second reading — 2019-09-09
- second reading — 2019-09-10
- second reading — 2019-09-10
- committee — 2019-09-10
- third reading — 2019-09-10
- other — 2019-09-10
- passed — 2019-09-10
- royal assent — 2019-09-13
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-07-25.
This bill would let future royal commissions hold private sessions where individuals can share personal experiences in a less formal setting.
A regulation would be needed to give a commission the power to hold private sessions, and senior staff could be authorised to run them under certain conditions.
The government intends to apply private sessions to the Disability Royal Commission and the Aged Care Royal Commission if the bill passes.
- Enables a royal commission to hold private sessions if a regulation authorises it.
- Allows the chair or sole commissioner to authorise assistant commissioners to hold private sessions.
- Applies limits on using or disclosing information given in a private session.
- Extends those limits to certain confidential information given to the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission outside private sessions.
People giving personal accounts to future royal commissions, particularly those involved with the Disability Royal Commission and the Aged Care Royal Commission.
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