149
CurrentProtection of legal practitioners and witnesses
Part 6Examinations
Division 3Privileges and secrecy provisions applying to examinations
149 Protection of legal practitioners and witnesses
S. 149 inserted by No. 28/2012 s. 21 (as amended by No. 82/2012 s. 151(3)).
(1)
An Australian legal practitioner representing a person at an examination or assisting the IBAC at an examination has the same protection and immunity as a legal practitioner has in representing a party in a proceeding in the Supreme Court.
(2)
A person appearing as a witness at an examination has the same protection and immunity as a witness has in a proceeding in the Supreme Court.
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