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INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION ACT 1988 - SECT 24
Privilege as regards information, documents etc
24 Privilege as regards information, documents etc
(1) This section applies where, under section 21 or 22, the Commission
requires any person- (a) to produce any statement of information, or
(b) to
produce any document or other thing.
(2) The Commission shall set aside the
requirement if it appears to the Commission that any person has a ground of
privilege whereby, in proceedings in a court of law, the person might resist a
like requirement and it does not appear to the Commission that the person
consents to compliance with the requirement.
(3) The person must however
comply with the requirement despite- (a) any rule which in proceedings in a
court of law might justify an objection to compliance with a like requirement
on grounds of public interest, or
(b) any privilege of a public authority or
public official in that capacity which the authority or official could have
claimed in a court of law, or
(c) any duty of secrecy or other restriction on
disclosure applying to a public authority or public official or a former
public authority or public official.
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