Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

WITNESS PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 20

                   If:

                     (a)  a participant has been provided with a new identity or has been relocated under the NWPP; and

                     (b)  an approved authority or a member notifies the Commissioner that the participant is under investigation for, or has been arrested for or charged with, an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory the maximum penalty for which is or includes imprisonment for a period of more than one year;

the Commissioner may:

                     (c)  release to the approved authority or the member the new identity or new location of the participant; and

                     (d)  provide the approved authority or the member with the criminal record of the participant and the participant's fingerprints; and

                     (e)  release to the approved authority or the member such other information relating to the NWPP as the Commissioner considers appropriate in the circumstances; and

                      (f)  if the Commissioner considers it appropriate to do so in the circumstances--allow officers of the approved authority or the member to interview the Commissioner, a Deputy Commissioner, AFP employees or special members of the Australian Federal Police in relation to the participant.