Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) For subsection 9 (2) of the Act, this regulation applies in relation to the Royal Commission records of the Oil‑for‑Food Inquiry, other than the following Royal Commission records:
(a) Royal Commission records relating to the administration of the Inquiry;
(b) Royal Commission records relating to the financial management of the Inquiry;
(c) Royal Commission records that were in the public domain on 27 November 2006;
(d) the Report of the Inquiry.
Note 1 The Report of the Inquiry was presented to the Governor‑General on 24 November 2006 and tabled in the Parliament on 27 November 2006.
Note 2 Royal Commission records are explained in subsection 9 (1) of the Act.
(2) For paragraph 9 (2) (a) of the Act, the Royal Commission records are to be kept in the custody of the Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
(3) For paragraph 9 (2) (c) of the Act, the circumstances in which the custodian of the Royal Commission records must, as soon as practicable, give a copy of a record that the custodian certifies to be a true copy of the record ( certified copy ) to a person or body are that:
(a) the person or body is the owner of the record; and
(b) the record has not been returned to the person or body; and
(c) the person or body has requested a certified copy of the record.
(4) For subregulation (3), until a certified copy is given, the custodian of the Royal Commission records must provide the person or body, or a person authorised by the person or body, reasonable access to the record for the purposes of inspecting and making copies of, or taking extracts from, the record.
(5) For paragraph 9 (2) (c) of the Act, the circumstances in which the custodian of the Royal Commission records may give some or all of those records to a person or body are that the person or body:
(a) performs a function relating to law enforcement purposes within the meaning of section 9 of the Act; or
(b) is responsible for advising a Minister of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory about the administration of a law of the Commonwealth, of that State or of that Territory.
(6) For paragraph 9 (2) (d) of the Act, the circumstances in which the custodian of the Royal Commission records may allow access to some or all of those records to a person or body are that the person or body:
(a) performs a function relating to law enforcement purposes within the meaning of section 9 of the Act; or
(b) is responsible for advising a Minister of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory about the administration of a law of the Commonwealth, of that State or of that Territory.
(7) Subregulations (3), (4), (5) and (6) do not limit the circumstances in which the custodian of the Royal Commission records may:
(a) give a Royal Commission record to a person or body; or
(b) allow access to a Royal Commission record to a person or body.
(8) Subregulations (3), (4), (5) and (6) do not limit the operation of subsections 9 (6) and (7) of the Act.