Commissions of Inquiry Amendment (Private Sessions Information) Act 2025
An Act to amend the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1995
[Royal Assent 27 November 2025]
Be it enacted by Her Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Commissions of Inquiry Amendment (Private Sessions Information) Act 2025 .
This Act is taken to have commenced on 1 March 2021.
In this Act, the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1995 is referred to as the Principal Act.
4. Section 19C amended (Offences relating to private sessions)
Section 19C(2) of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after paragraph (d) the following paragraph:(da) the information that is recorded or used by, or disclosed to, a person –(i) relates to a part of a private session where the person appeared or where information provided by the person was provided to the Commission; and(ii) does not disclose the identity, or lead to the identification, of any other person appearing at the private session, without the consent of the other person; or
This Act is repealed on the first anniversary of the day on which it received the Royal Assent.
[Second reading presentation speech made in:
House of Assembly on 9 SEPTEMBER 2025
Legislative Council on 25 SEPTEMBER 2025]