Information Commissioner investigations—protection from liability
85 Information Commissioner investigations—protection from liability
This section applies if a person does any of the following in good faith for the purposes of an investigation:
gives information;
produces a document;
answers a question.
If this section applies, then:
civil proceedings do not lie against a person because the person does any of the matters mentioned in paragraphs (1)(a) to (c); and
the person is not liable for a penalty under a provision of any law because the person does any of those matters.
This section applies whether or not the person is required to do a thing mentioned in subsection (1) in accordance with this Division.
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