Bill
Royal Commissions Amendment (Protection of Information) Bill 2021
passed, as at 2021-09-10. Attorney-General portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Attorney-General
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2021-03-17
- second reading — 2021-03-17
- second reading — 2021-08-25
- second reading — 2021-08-25
- committee — 2021-08-25
- third reading — 2021-08-25
- introduced — 2021-08-25
- second reading — 2021-08-30
- second reading — 2021-08-30
- second reading — 2021-08-30
- third reading — 2021-08-30
- passed — 2021-08-30
- royal assent — 2021-09-10
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 2021-03-17.
The bill would let the Royal Commission keep certain information about widespread harm confidential.
Confidentiality would cover accounts of systemic violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation, including those given on someone else's behalf.
The Commission could only use such confidential information in a report if it was provided under a summons or if identifying details are removed.
- Extend confidentiality protections to accounts of systemic forms of harm.
- Apply protections to information given on behalf of another person, covering both the giver and the represented person.
- Allow confidential information in reports only if given under summons or de-identified.
People giving accounts of systemic violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation, and those on whose behalf such accounts are given.
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