PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 46C Compliance with subpoenas and other directions

PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 46C

46C Compliance with subpoenas and other directions

(1) The Chief Investigator or a former Chief Investigator or a person who is or was a transport safety investigator is not obliged to comply with a subpoena or similar direction of a court in relation to civil proceedings to attend and answer questions relating to an accident or incident or other event, occurrence, practice or matter the subject of a transport safety investigation, if the Chief Investigator has issued a certificate under subsection (2) in relation to the transport safety investigation.

(2) The Chief Investigator may issue a certificate stating that the Chief Investigator, former Chief Investigator or a person who is or was a transport safety investigator is or was involved in a transport safety investigation.

(3) A member of a Board of Inquiry, a former member of a Board of Inquiry or a person who is or was an authorised officer is not obliged to comply with a subpoena or similar direction of a court in relation to civil proceedings to attend and answer questions relating to an accident or incident or other event, occurrence, practice or matter the subject of a transport safety inquiry, if the Minister has issued a certificate under subsection (4).

(4) The Minister may issue a certificate stating that a member of a Board of Inquiry, a former member of a Board of Inquiry or a person who is or was an authorised officer is or was involved in a transport safety inquiry.