New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LAW ENFORCEMENT CONDUCT COMMISSION ACT 2016 - SECT 56

56 Abrogation of privileges

(1) This section applies where, under section 54 or 55, the Commission requires any person to produce--

(a) any statement of information, or

(b) any document or other thing.

(2) The Commission must set aside the requirement if it appears to the Commission that any person has a ground of privilege under which, 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 that 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 that 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.