Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) A person is not excused from answering a question or giving information or from producing a document or other thing in accordance with a witness summons on the ground that the answer to the question, the information, or the production of the document or other thing, might tend to incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty.
(2) Any answer, information, document or thing given or produced by a person in accordance with a witness summons that might tend to incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty is not admissible in evidence against the person before any court or person acting judicially, except in proceedings for—
(a) perjury or giving false information; or
(b) an offence against this Act; or
(c) an offence against the Audit Act 1994 ; or
(d) an offence against the Ombudsman Act 1973 ; or
(e) an offence against the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Act 2011 ; or
(f) contempt of the Victorian Inspectorate under this Act; or
(g) an offence against the Major Crime (Investigative Powers) Act 2004 ; or
S. 70(2)(h) amended by No. 2/2019 s. 72(Sch. 1 Pt B item 9).
(h) an offence against section 72 or 73 of the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2012 ; or
(i) a disciplinary process or action.
S. 70(3) repealed by No. 67/2014 s. 147(Sch. 2 item 44).
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S. 71 inserted by No. 19/2012 s. 12.