Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts20. Evidence
(1) Subject to this Act, the provisions of sections 6, 7, 8(1) and (2), 9 and 10 of the Inquiries Act apply to and in relation to any investigation which the Ombudsman is authorized to conduct under this Act as if he was a Commissioner appointed to conduct an inquiry under that Act and as if the investigation was an inquiry.
(2) For the purpose of any investigation under this Act, the Ombudsman may require any information or other particulars furnished to him to be verified by statutory declaration.
(3) Subject to section 22, no obligation to maintain secrecy or other restriction upon disclosure of information obtained by or furnished to an officer, member or employee of or within any department or authority to which this Act applies, whether imposed by any law in force in the Territory or otherwise, applies to or in relation to the disclosure of information for the purposes of an investigation by the Ombudsman under this Act.
(4) Subject to section 22, a department or authority to which this Act applies is not entitled in relation to any investigation by the Ombudsman under this Act to any such privilege in respect of the production of documents or the giving of evidence as is allowed by law in legal proceedings.
(5) Subject to this Act, in any investigation by the Ombudsman under this Act, every person shall have the same privileges in relation to the giving of evidence and the production of documents, papers and things that he would have had as a witness in proceedings in a court of law.