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s 167

Protection of certain documents etc. from production to court etc

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Volume 2Parts 6 to 10 (sections 153 to 235)
Part 6Provisions relating to information
Division 2Confidentiality

167 Protection of certain documents etc. from production to court etc

An officer must not, except for the purposes of the family assistance law or the Royal Commissions Act 1902, be required:

(a)

to produce any document in his or her possession; or

(b)

to disclose any matter or thing of which he or she had notice;

because of the officer’s powers, or the performance of the officer’s duties or functions, under the family assistance law, to:

(c)

a court; or

(d)

a tribunal; or

(e)

an authority; or

(f)

a person;

having power to require the production of documents or the answering of questions.

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