ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1902 - SECT 6OM Relationship with the Archives Act 1983

ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1902 - SECT 6OM

  (1)   For the purposes of the Archives Act 1983 , a record:

  (a)   that contains information obtained at a private session; or

  (b)   that relates to a private session and identifies a natural person who appeared at a private session; or

  (c)   that contains information that was given by a natural person to a member, or member of the staff, of a Royal Commission for the purposes of a private session (whether or not a private session was, or is to be, held for the Commission) and identifies the person who gave the information;

is in the open access period on and after 1   January in the year that is 99 years after the calendar year that the record came into existence.

  (2)   To avoid doubt, subsection   (1) applies in relation to a record whether it came into existence before, during or after a private session (if any) was held.

  (3)   Subsection   3(7) and section   56 of the Archives Act 1983 do not apply to a record referred to in subsection   (1).