Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION (CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PROCEEDINGS) ACT 2004 - SECT 35

  (1)   If:

  (a)   in accordance with paragraph   27(3)(a), the court holds a hearing to decide whether to make an order under section   31 in relation to information described in a certificate given to the court before the trial in a federal criminal proceeding began; and

  (b)   after holding the hearing, the court makes an order under subsection   31(5) that any person may disclose the information;

the order does not have the effect that there are grounds for re - conducting any part of the proceeding that took place before the trial began.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   in accordance with paragraph   28(5)(a), the court holds a hearing to decide whether to make an order under section   31 in relation to the calling of a witness that is the subject of a certificate given to the court before the trial in a federal criminal proceeding began; and

  (b)   after holding the hearing, the court makes an order under paragraph   31(6)(b) that the person may be called as a witness;

the order does not have the effect that there are grounds for re - conducting any part of the proceeding that took place before the trial began.