Veterans' Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Act 2025 (17 of 2025)

Schedule 5   Repatriation Medical Authority and Specialist Medical Review Council

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

27   After section 411

Insert:

411A Copyright in submissions

(1) The Authority or the Review Council is not the owner of any copyright subsisting in material ( submitted material ) contained in a submission made to the Authority or the Review Council (as the case may be) for the purposes of an investigation under Part 3 of Chapter 9A.

(2) Despite the Copyright Act 1968, the Authority or the Review Council does not infringe any copyright subsisting in submitted material if, in performing its functions or exercising its powers, the Authority or the Review Council (as the case may be) does an act comprised in the copyright without the licence of the owner of the copyright.

411B Access to information

(1) Subject to subsection (2), any person or organisation referred to in any of paragraphs 370CH(1)(a) to (d) or 380CB(1)(a) to (c) is entitled, on request made in writing to:

(a) in the case of a person or organisation referred to in paragraphs 370CH(1)(a) to (d) - the Authority; or

(b) in the case of a person or organisation referred to in paragraphs 380CB(1)(a) to (c) - the Review Council;

to have reasonable access to any document containing information considered by the Authority or the Review Council (as the case may be) for the purposes of an investigation.

(2) The Authority or the Review Council (as the case may be) may not disclose any personal information about a particular person if the information is likely to reveal the identity of that person.