Queensland Numbered Acts

COURT AND CIVIL LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2017 - SECT 178

178 Replacement of s 48 (Inadmissibility of particular document given under investigation requirement)

Section 48—
omit, insert—

48 Inadmissibility of particular information in proceedings

(1) This section applies if an individual gives information to the ombudsman under an investigation requirement.

(2) The following information is not admissible in any proceeding as evidence against the individual—

(a) the information given by the individual under the investigation requirement and the fact of that giving (
"primary evidence" );

(b) any information obtained as a direct or indirect result of primary evidence (
"derived evidence" ).

(3) Subsection (2) does not prevent primary evidence or derived evidence being admitted in evidence in criminal proceedings about the falsity or misleading nature of the primary evidence.

(4) In this section—

"information" includes a document.