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EVIDENCE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1958 - SECT 42BG

Permission to give information disclosing operative's identity etc.

    (1)     This section applies if the chief officer of a law enforcement agency gives a witness identity protection certificate for a local operative of the agency in relation to an interstate proceeding.

    (2)     The chief officer may, in writing, permit a person to give information (otherwise than in the proceeding) that discloses, or may lead to the disclosure of, the local operative's identity or where the local operative lives if the chief officer considers it necessary or appropriate for the information to be given.

    (3)     The permission—

        (a)     must name the person who may give the information; and

        (b)     must name the person to whom the information may be given; and

        (c)     must state the information that may be given; and

        (d)     may state how the information may be given.

Note

The chief officer may delegate functions under this section—see section 42BJ.

S. 42BH inserted by No. 60/2004 s. 3.



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