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EVIDENCE ACT 2001 - SECT 126D

Loss of professional confidential relationship privilege: misconduct
(1)  This Division does not prevent the adducing of evidence of a communication made or the contents of a document prepared in the furtherance of the commission of a fraud or an offence or the commission of an act that renders a person liable to a civil penalty.
(2)  For the purposes of this section, if the commission of the fraud, offence or act is a fact in issue and there are reasonable grounds for finding that –
(a) the fraud, offence or act was committed; and
(b) a communication was made or document prepared in furtherance of the commission of the fraud, offence or act –
the court may find that the communication was so made or document so prepared.



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