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POLICE INTEGRITY ACT 2008 (NO. 34 OF 2008) - SECT 125

Privileges do not apply

    (1)     It is not a reasonable excuse for a member of OPI personnel to fail to produce a document or other thing, or to answer a question, or to provide any information under section 124, for the member to claim that production of the document or other thing, the answer to the question or the information might tend to incriminate the member or make the member liable to a penalty.

    (2)     It is not a reasonable excuse for a member of OPI personnel to fail to produce a document or other thing, or to answer a question, or to provide any information under section 124 on the ground of legal professional privilege.

    (3)     Subsection (4) limits the use that can be made of any documents or other things produced, or any answers to questions, or to any information provided under section 124.

    (4)     The document, thing, answer or information is not admissible in evidence against the member of OPI personnel before any court or person acting judicially, except in proceedings for—

        (a)     perjury or giving false information; or

        (b)     an offence referred to in section 124(4); or

        (c)     a breach of discipline, in the case of a member of OPI personnel who is a member of Victoria Police.

    (5)     Nothing in subsection (2) affects the right of a member of OPI personnel to object to the answering of a question or production of a document in relation to a criminal proceeding to which the member is a party on the ground of legal professional privilege, whether that proceeding commenced before, on or after the requirement under section 124 was made.



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