Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) A protected confidence must not be disclosed in, or for the purposes of, a preliminary criminal proceeding.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1)––
(a) a person cannot be required (whether by subpoena, application, notice or any other procedure), in or in relation to a preliminary criminal proceeding, to produce a document recording a protected confidence; and
(b) protected confidence evidence is not admissible in the preliminary criminal proceeding.
Example––par (a)
A person could not be required to disclose a protected confidence in response to a request for production of documents in a preliminary criminal proceeding.