Witness Protection Act 1996

Subject to this section, only the Commissioner and members who hold or occupy designated positions and who are authorised by the Commissioner, may have access to the register and to documents kept in conjunction with the register.

If—

a participant applies to the Commissioner for access to information in the register, or documents kept in conjunction with the register, concerning the participant; and

the Commissioner is, on such evidence as the Commissioner may require (which may include the applicant's fingerprints), satisfied of the applicant's identity, the Commissioner must give the participant access to the information or documents.

The Commissioner may, if he or she is of the opinion that it is in the interests of the administration of justice to do so, allow another person to have access to the register or part of the register or to some or all of the documents kept in conjunction with the register.

If the Commissioner allows another person access under subsection (4), the Commissioner must notify the relevant approved authority (if any) of—

the name of the person to whom access was allowed;

and

the information the person was allowed access to; and

the reasons for allowing access.