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CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 192 Refusal to answer question

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 192

Refusal to answer question

192 Refusal to answer question

(1) A witness at a commission hearing must answer a question put to the person at the hearing by the presiding officer.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 5 years imprisonment.
(2) The person is not entitled—
(a) to remain silent; or
(b) to refuse to answer the question on the ground of the self-incrimination privilege or the ground of confidentiality.
(2A) The person is entitled to refuse to answer the question on the following grounds of privilege—
(a) legal professional privilege;
(b) public interest immunity;
(c) parliamentary privilege.
(3) If—
(a) the person refuses to answer a question on the ground the answer to the question would disclose a communication to which legal professional privilege attaches; and
(b) the person has no authority to waive the privilege;
the person must, if required by the presiding officer, tell the officer the name and address of the person to whom or by whom the communication was made.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty for subsection (3) —200 penalty units or 5 years imprisonment.