INDEPENDENT BROAD-BASED ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2011 - SECT 149 Protection of legal practitioners and witnesses
INDEPENDENT BROAD-BASED ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2011 - SECT 149
Protection of legal practitioners and witnesses(1) An Australian legal practitioner representing a person at an examination or assisting the IBAC at an examination has the same protection and immunity as a legal practitioner has in representing a party in a proceeding in the Supreme Court.
(2) A person appearing as a witness at an examination has the same protection and immunity as a witness has in a proceeding in the Supreme Court.
Division 4—Assistance for witnesses
S. 150 inserted by No. 28/2012 s. 21 (as amended by No. 82/2012 s. 151(3)), substituted by No. 30/2016 s. 40.