Commonwealth Numbered Acts

JUDICIAL MISBEHAVIOUR AND INCAPACITY (PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONS) ACT 2012 (NO. 188, 2012) - SECT 66

Protection for answering question

             (1)  A person who:

                     (a)  is required to appear, or is appearing, at a hearing of a Commission; and

                     (b)  answers a question at the hearing;

is not liable for a contravention of a prohibition by or under another Australian law on the answer.

Protection for producing document or other thing

             (2)  A person who is required to produce, or who produces, a document or other thing to a member of the staff of, or to a member of, a Commission is not liable for a contravention of a prohibition by or under another Australian law on the production of the document or thing.