New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WITNESS PROTECTION ACT 1995 - SECT 34

34 Certain persons not to be required to disclose information

(1) This section applies to a person who is or has been:

(a) the Commissioner of Police, or

(b) a member of the Police Service, or

(c) the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, or

(d) a person employed in the administration of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1973 or the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995 , or

(e) the Ombudsman, or

(f) a member of the staff of the Ombudsman, or

(g) an approved authority, or

(h) a member of the staff of an approved authority, or

(i) a person or body (or an employee of a person or body) providing services to or for a participant at the request of the Commissioner of Police.

(2) Unless the Supreme Court makes an order that provides to the contrary, or the proceedings relate to an offence under this Act, a person to whom this section applies cannot be required in any proceedings in a court, tribunal or a Royal Commission or other commission of inquiry to produce any document or to divulge or communicate any matter or thing relating to the exercise of functions under this Act or the protection of witnesses included in the witness protection program.