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Queensland
Crime and Misconduct
Commission (Administrative
Negligence Rectification)
Amendment Bill 2013
Queensland
Crime and Misconduct Commission
(Administrative Negligence Rectification)
Amendment Bill 2013
Contents
Page
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4 Insertion of new s 346A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
346A Protection of particular documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2013
A Bill
for
An Act to amend the Crime and Misconduct Act 2001 for a
particular purpose
Crime and Misconduct Commission (Administrative Negligence Rectification) Amendment
Bill 2013
[s 1]
The Parliament of Queensland enacts-- 1
Clause 1 Short title 2
This Act may be cited as the Crime and Misconduct 3
Commission (Administrative Negligence Rectification) 4
Amendment Act 2013. 5
Clause 2 Commencement 6
This Act is taken to have commenced on 8 March 2013. 7
Clause 3 Act amended 8
This Act amends the Crime and Misconduct Act 2001. 9
Clause 4 Insertion of new s 346A 10
After section 346-- 11
insert-- 12
346A Protection of particular documents 13
(1) This section applies to a person who, from any 14
source, has gained, gains, or has access to, a 15
disclosed document. 16
(2) The person must not, on or before 8 May 2013-- 17
(a) copy the document; or 18
(b) use the document for any purpose; or 19
(c) disclose the document to anyone; or 20
(d) give access to the document to anyone. 21
Maximum penalty--500 penalty units or 1 year's 22
imprisonment. 23
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the copying, use, 24
disclosure or giving access is-- 25
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Crime and Misconduct Commission (Administrative Negligence Rectification) Amendment
Bill 2013
[s 4]
(a) in compliance with lawful process requiring 1
production of documents or giving of 2
evidence before a court or tribunal; or 3
(b) as permitted or required by this Act, the 4
Commissions of Inquiry Act 1950 or the 5
Parliament of Queensland Act 2001; or 6
(c) to perform official duties under the Public 7
Records Act 2002. 8
(4) In this section-- 9
archivist means the archivist, and the staff of the 10
archives, under the Public Records Act 2002. 11
disclosed document means-- 12
(a) a document relating to the inquiry accessed 13
from the archivist between 1 February 2012 14
and 5 March 2013; or 15
(b) a document, to the extent it relates to the 16
inquiry-- 17
(i) created by the archivist or the 18
commission for the purpose of helping 19
a person access a document mentioned 20
in paragraph (a); and 21
(ii) accessed between 1 February 2012 and 22
5 March 2013. 23
document includes information. 24
inquiry means the commission issued to Gerald 25
Edward Fitzgerald by the Governor by orders in 26
council dated 26 May 1987, 24 June 1987, 25 27
August 1988 and 29 June 1989. 28
© State of Queensland 2013
Authorised by the Parliamentary Counsel
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