Evidence Act 1906

In this section and in sections 20H to 20M —

direction means a direction under section 20J(1);

identifying evidence has the meaning given in section 20I;

informant means a person who gives information to a journalist in the normal course of the journalist’s work in the expectation that the information may be published in a news medium;

journalist means a person engaged in the profession or occupation of journalism in connection with the publication of information in a news medium;

national security has the meaning that it has in the National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004 (Commonwealth) section 7;

news medium means a medium for the dissemination to the public or a section of the public of news and observations on news;

person acting judicially does not include a member of a House of Parliament or a Committee of a House, or both Houses, of Parliament who, by law, has authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence;

proceeding does not include a proceeding before either House of Parliament or a Committee of either House, or both Houses, of Parliament, in which evidence is or may be given;

protection provisions (journalists) means this section and sections 20I to 20M.

[Section 20G inserted: No. 31 of 2012 s. 5.]