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WITNESS PROTECTION ACT 1995 - SECT 5
Witness protection program
(1) The Commissioner of Police, through the establishment and maintenance of a
witness protection program, is to take such action as the Commissioner thinks
necessary and reasonable to protect the safety and welfare of a participant.
(2) That action may include the following-- (a) making arrangements
necessary-- (i) to allow the participant to establish a new identity, or
(ii)
otherwise to protect the participant,
(b) relocating the participant,
(c)
providing accommodation for the participant,
(d) providing transport for the
property of the participant,
(e) providing reasonable financial assistance to
the participant,
(e1) providing to the participant services in the nature of
counselling (such as psychological counselling and drug and alcohol
counselling) and vocational training services,
(g) doing any other things
that the Commissioner of Police considers necessary to ensure the safety of
the participant.
(3) That action may also include doing things as a result of
functions conferred on the Commissioner of Police under a
complementary witness protection law.
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