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CurrentDuty of confidentiality
Schedule 1DCode of conduct for interpreters
8 Duty of confidentiality
(1)
An interpreter must keep confidential all information in any form whatsoever that the interpreter acquires in the course of their engagement to act as an interpreter (including any communication subject to legal professional privilege).
(2)
Subrule (1) does not apply to the extent—
(a)
the disclosure of the information is required by an Act or another law; or
(b)
the information is in, or comes into, the public domain other than by an act of the interpreter in breach of this duty of confidentiality; or
(c)
the beneficiary of the legal professional privilege has waived the privilege.
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