Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005

Evidence of information given, or evidence of production of documents by an individual, is not admissible in criminal proceedings against the individual if:

the individual previously gave the evidence or produced the documents in proceedings for a civil penalty order against the individual for an alleged contravention of a civil penalty provision (whether or not the order was made); and

the conduct alleged to constitute the offence is the same, or substantially the same, as the conduct alleged to constitute the contravention.

However, subsection (1) does not apply to criminal proceedings in relation to the falsity of the evidence given by the individual in the proceedings for the civil penalty order.