Financial Accountability Regime Act 2023

Subject to this section, a statement that a person makes at an examination of the person is admissible in evidence against the person in a proceeding.

The statement is not admissible if the statement is not admissible in evidence against the person under section 88.

The statement is not admissible if it is not relevant to the proceeding and the person objects to the admission of evidence of the statement.

The statement (the subject statement) is not admissible if:

it is qualified or explained by some other statement made at the examination; and

evidence of the other statement is not tendered in the proceeding; and

the person objects to the admission of evidence of the subject statement.

The statement is not admissible if:

it discloses matter in respect of which the person could claim legal professional privilege in the proceeding if subsection (1) did not apply in relation to the statement; and

the person objects to the admission of evidence of the statement.

Subsection (1) applies in relation to a proceeding against a person even if it is heard together with a proceeding against another person.

If a written record of an examination of a person is signed by the person under subsection 52(2), or is authenticated in a manner (if any) specified in the Minister rules, the record is admissible in a proceeding as prima facie evidence of the statements it records.

This Division does not limit or affect the admissibility in the proceeding of other evidence of statements made at the examination.