Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsS. 2.5.42(1) amended by No. 56/2014 s. 36.
(1) A person who receives a certificate under section 2.5.41 is freed from all criminal prosecutions, penal actions, penalties, forfeitures and punishments to which the person has before that time become liable under this Act or any other Act or law relating to gambling touching the matters in respect of which the person is so examined.
S. 2.5.42(2) amended by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 62.9).
(2) If any action or charge for an offence is at any time pending in any court against the person in respect of any act, matter or thing concerning which the person was so examined as a witness and in respect of which the person has before that time become liable, the court, on the production and proof of the certificate and on proof that the person was so examined touching the act, matter or thing—
(a) must stay the proceedings; and
(b) may award the person such costs as the person has been put to or such fixed sum for or towards costs as the court thinks fit.
S. 2.5.43 (Heading) amended by No. 56/2014 s. 37(1).