New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION ACT 1988 - SECT 49

49 Indemnities and undertakings

(1) The Commission may recommend to the Attorney General that a person be granted (under section 32 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 ) an indemnity from prosecution.

(2) The Commission may recommend to the Attorney General that a person be given (under section 33 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 ) an undertaking that--

(a) an answer, statement or disclosure in proceedings before the Commission, or

(b) the fact of a disclosure or production of a document in proceedings before the Commission,

will not be used in evidence against the person.

(3) Section 33 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 applies in relation to proceedings before the Commission in the same way as it applies in relation to proceedings for an offence.

(4) A reference in this section to proceedings before the Commission includes a reference to a compulsory examination or public inquiry conducted by the Commission or any other investigative activity involving the Commission or an officer of the Commission.