Western Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION (COVERT POWERS) ACT 2012 - SECT 89

89 .         Disclosure of operative’s true identity to presiding officer

        (1)         This section applies if a witness identity protection certificate for an operative in relation to a proceeding is filed in a court.

        (2)         The presiding officer in the proceeding may require the operative to do one or both of the following —

            (a)         to disclose the operative’s true identity to the presiding officer;

            (b)         to provide the presiding officer with photographic evidence of that identity.

        (3)         The presiding officer must not —

            (a)         record information disclosed to the presiding officer under subsection (2); or

            (b)         retain or copy a document or other thing provided to the presiding officer under that subsection.