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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1986 - SECT 297 Protected confidences--preliminary criminal proceedings

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1986 - SECT 297

Protected confidences--preliminary criminal proceedings

297 Protected confidences--preliminary criminal proceedings

(1) A person cannot seek to compel (whether by subpoena or any other procedure) any other person to produce a document recording a protected confidence in, or in connection with, any preliminary criminal proceedings.
(2) A document recording a protected confidence cannot be produced in, or in connection with, any preliminary criminal proceedings.
(3) Evidence cannot be adduced in any preliminary criminal proceedings if it would disclose a protected confidence or the contents of a document recording a protected confidence.