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.