Western Australian Current Acts

CORRUPTION, CRIME AND MISCONDUCT ACT 2003 - SECT 145

145 .         Use of statements of witness against witness

        (1)         A statement or disclosure made by a witness in answer to a question that the Commission requires the witness to answer is not admissible in evidence against the person making the statement or disclosure in —

            (a)         any criminal proceedings other than proceedings for an offence under this Act; or

            (b)         proceedings for the imposition of a penalty other than —

                  (i)         contempt proceedings; or

                  (ii)         proceedings for an offence under this Act; or

                  (iii)         disciplinary action.

        (1A)         Despite subsection (1), a statement or disclosure made by a witness in answer to a question that the Commission requires the witness to answer is admissible in evidence against the person making the statement or disclosure —

            (a)         in any proceedings under the Criminal Property Confiscation Act 2000 ; and

            (b)         in any civil proceeding.

        (2)         Despite subsection (1), the witness may, in any civil or criminal proceedings, be asked about the statement or disclosure under section 21 of the Evidence Act 1906 .

        (3)         For the purposes of this section, the transcript of an examination of a witness is admissible as evidence of a statement or disclosure made by the witness in answer to a question that the Commission requires the witness to answer.

        [Section 145 inserted: No. 78 of 2003 s. 17; amended: No. 8 of 2009 s. 41(6); No. 10 of 2018 s. 15.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 78 of 2003 s. 17.]