Evidence Act 1906

In this section —

an offence committed by the confider;

an act or omission on the part of the confider that renders the confider liable to a civil penalty;

deceit, dishonesty, inappropriate partiality or a breach of trust on the part of the confider;

the confider acting corruptly, or corruptly failing to act, in any capacity;

the confider corruptly taking advantage of the confider’s position to obtain a benefit for the confider or another person or to cause a detriment to another person;

the confider engaging in conduct that adversely affects, or could adversely affect, directly or indirectly, the honest or impartial performance of the functions of any person in any capacity;

misuse, on the part of the confider, of information or material that the confider has acquired in any capacity, whether the misuse is to obtain a benefit for the confider or any other person or to cause a detriment to another person;

conduct providing reasonable grounds for the termination of the confider’s employment;

conduct providing reasonable grounds for disciplining the confider in relation to unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct, or the breach of a professional standard, in relation to the confider’s profession, whether or not the confider is a member of the body that prescribed the standard.

The protection provisions (PCR) do not prevent the adducing of evidence of a communication made or the contents of a document prepared in the furtherance of misconduct by a person who makes a communication in confidence to another person.

For the purposes of this section, if the misconduct is a fact in issue and there are reasonable grounds for believing that —

the misconduct occurred; and

a communication was made or document prepared in furtherance of the misconduct,