Commissions of Inquiry Act 1995

The following are not admissible in evidence against a person in any civil or criminal proceedings, other than proceedings for an offence in section 19C, in any court:a statement or disclosure made by the person – at a private session; or to a member of a Commission solely for the purposes of a private session or proposed private session; the production of a document or other thing by the person at a private session.

A person who appears, or is authorised to be, at a private session has the same protection and immunity, and is subject to the same liabilities in respect of any civil or criminal proceedings, as a witness has in a case tried in the Supreme Court.

A legal practitioner who appears on behalf of another person at a private session has the same protection and immunity as a barrister has in appearing for a party in proceedings in the Supreme Court.