New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMISSION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1998 - SECT 22

22 Exemptions for Cabinet documents and other privileged material

(1) Nothing in Parts 3 and 4:

(a) requires or authorises any person to give any statement of information or answer any question which relates to confidential proceedings of Cabinet, or to disclose a Cabinet document, or

(b) requires any person to give any statement of information, answer any question or disclose any document if the person can claim privilege not to do so.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a certificate of the head of The Cabinet Office that any information or question relates to confidential proceedings of Cabinet or that a document is a Cabinet document is conclusive of the matter certified.

(3) In this section:
"Cabinet" includes a committee of Cabinet or a subcommittee of such a committee.
"Cabinet document" means a document that is a restricted document by virtue of clause 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information Act 1989 .
"disclosure" of a document includes the provision of copies of the document, the granting of access to the document or the disclosure of the contents of the document.
"document" includes a part of a document.
"privilege" means privilege based on a claim by a person that evidence or other information about a matter or document:

(a) might tend to incriminate the person or make the person liable to any forfeiture or penalty, or

(b) could not be required to be adduced in proceedings before a New South Wales court by reason of the operation of section 10 (Parliamentary privilege preserved) or Part 3.10 (Privileges) of Chapter 3 of the Evidence Act 1995 .