Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN INFLUENCE TRANSPARENCY SCHEME ACT 2018 - SECT 9A

Parliamentary privilege

  (1)   To avoid doubt, this Act does not affect the law relating to the powers, privileges and immunities of any of the following:

  (a)   each House of the Parliament;

  (b)   the members of each House of the Parliament;

  (c)   the committees of each House of the Parliament and joint committees of both Houses of the Parliament.

Legal professional privilege

  (2)   To avoid doubt, this Act does not affect the law relating to legal professional privilege.

Effect on Secretary's power to obtain information and documents

  (3)   In particular:

  (a)   the Secretary's powers under sections   45 and 46 do not extend to requiring a person to give information, or produce documents or copies of documents, if:

  (i)   the information or documents are protected by a privilege or immunity mentioned in subsection   (1) or (2); or

  (ii)   complying with the requirement would involve a breach of a privilege or immunity mentioned in subsection   (1) or (2); and

  (b)   the person need not comply with any purported requirement to that effect.