Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023

This section applies if a document or thing is produced to an investigating Commissioner or review panel under section 24F.

The Commissioner or panel:

may make copies of the document or thing, or take extracts from the document; and

may retain possession of the document or thing for such period as is necessary for the purposes of the performance of the Commissioner’s or panel’s functions.

While the Commissioner or panel retains the document or thing, the Commissioner or panel must allow a person who would otherwise be entitled to inspect the document or view the thing:

to do so at all reasonable times; and

to copy the document or thing.

Subsection (3) does not apply if:

possession of the document or thing by the person could constitute an offence; or

inspecting or copying the document or thing (as the case requires) would compromise or damage the document or thing; or

the Commissioner or panel is satisfied that allowing the person to inspect the document or view the thing would prejudice the performance of the Commissioner’s or panel’s functions.