Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Victims of Crime Assistance Act 1996 - SECT 42A

Inspection of documents

42A. Inspection of documents



(1) When the office of the Tribunal is open, the applicant in the proceeding
and, on payment of the prescribed fee (if any) any other person, may inspect
and obtain a copy of any document filed in a proceeding in the Tribunal.

(2) Despite subsection (1)-

   (a)  a person may not inspect or obtain a copy of a document which the
        Tribunal has ordered remain confidential;

   (b)  a person, not being the applicant in the proceeding, may not, without
        the leave of the Tribunal, inspect or obtain a copy of a document
        which in the opinion of a registrar of the Tribunal ought to remain
        confidential.

(3) The Tribunal may, if satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so,
order that-

   (a)  a document filed in a proceeding in the Tribunal remain confidential;
        or

   (b)  a person have leave to inspect or obtain a copy of a document filed in
        a proceeding in the Tribunal.

(4) An order under this section may be made on the application of a party or
on the Tribunal's own initiative.