CHILD SAFETY (PROHIBITED PERSONS) ACT 2016 - SECT 10

CHILD SAFETY (PROHIBITED PERSONS) ACT 2016 - SECT 10

10—Criminal intelligence

        (1)         If the central assessment unit makes a decision under this Act to prohibit a person from working with children on the basis of information that is classified by the Commissioner of Police as criminal intelligence, the central assessment unit is not required to provide any grounds or reasons for the decision other than that it would be contrary to the public interest to allow the person to work with children.

        (2)         In any proceedings under this Act, the court determining the proceedings—

            (a)         must, on the application of the Commissioner of Police, take steps to maintain the confidentiality of information classified by the Commissioner of Police as criminal intelligence, including steps to receive evidence and hear argument about the information in private in the absence of the parties to the proceedings and their representatives; and

            (b)         may take evidence consisting of, or relating to, information that is so classified by the Commissioner of Police by way of affidavit.