Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION (CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PROCEEDINGS) ACT 2004 - SECT 23

             (1)  The regulations may prescribe:

                     (a)  ways in which information that is disclosed, or to be disclosed, to the court in a federal criminal proceeding must be stored, handled or destroyed; and

                     (b)  ways in which, and places at which, such information may be accessed and documents or records relating to such information may be prepared.

             (2)  At any time during a federal criminal proceeding, the court may make an order relating to the protection, storage, handling or destruction of information that is disclosed, or to be disclosed, to the court in the proceeding.

             (3)  A court must not make an order under subsection (2) that is inconsistent with a regulation mentioned in subsection (1).

Note:          The court may also make orders under section 93.2 of the Criminal Code and under other provisions of this Act in order to protect information from disclosure.