New Zealand Acts

TERRORISM SUPPRESSION ACT 2002 - SECT 34

34 Proceedings involving classified security information

1 This section applies to any civil proceedings (including public law and judicial review proceedings) in a court relating to the administration or enforcement of this Act.

2 If the Crown proposes to present classified security information in proceedings, the Attorney-General must—

a) make an application to an authorised court under section 32 of the 2022 Act for a security information order to protect the confidentiality of the information to be given as evidence in the proceedings; and

b) submit to the court the certification described in section 4A(1)(b) .

3 If the classified security information is also national security information, the Crown may submit with the application and certification referred to in subsection (2) an NSI certificate under section 41 of the 2022 Act and seek a security information order as set out in section 36(3) of that Act (under which the types of orders available to the court are limited).

4 In this section,—  
"2022 Act" means the Security Information in Proceedings Act 2022     
"authorised court" ,
"national security information" ,
"NSI certificate" , and
"security information order" have the meanings given to them in section 4 of the 2022 Act.  

History: Section 34: inserted, on 28 November 2023, by section 76A of the Security Information in Proceedings (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2022 (2022 No 72).