New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WITNESS PROTECTION ACT 1995 - SECT 31

31 Payments under witness protection program

(1) The Commissioner of Police has a discretion to certify in writing that the whole or part of an amount held by a participant represents payments made to the participant under the witness protection program.

(2) An amount so certified cannot be confiscated or restrained, and cannot be applied in payment of pecuniary penalties, under the Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime Act 1989 .