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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2018-10-23" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>ICAC Investigation</name>
      <text id="2018102388810f1a37674a0d80000296">
        <heading>ICAC Investigation</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4622" kind="question">
        <name>Dr CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2018-10-23">
            <name>ICAC Investigation</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-10-23T14:17:52" />
        <text id="2018102388810f1a37674a0d80000297">
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          <by role="member" id="4622">Dr CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:17):</by>  My question is to the Acting Premier. Has the Attorney-General received any advice that she is in breach of section 54(1) of the ICAC Act? With your leave, and that of the house, I will explain.</text>
        <text id="2018102388810f1a37674a0d80000298">Leave granted.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4622" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>Dr CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2018102388810f1a37674a0d80000299">
          <by role="member" id="4622">Dr CLOSE:</by>  The Hon. Ray Finkelstein QC, former Federal Court judge, in his legal opinion states:</text>
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          <inserted>Except as required or authorised by the ICAC Act or the Commissioner, a person who has been engaged in the administration of the ICAC Act must not disclose information relating to the subject-matter of a complaint or an investigation under the ICAC Act, and that a breach may result in a fine or a term of imprisonment.</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-10-23T14:18:33" />
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          <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General) (14:18):</by>  I thank the acting leader for her question. I haven't read the report from which she has made the quote, or whether it is legal advice or a commentary on our state legislation, but, nevertheless, I have had advice on all of the matters during the course of last month's events. I have received that advice, I have read it and I am satisfied there has been no breach.</text>
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