Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Defamation Act 2005 - SECT 43

Incriminating answers, documents or things

43. Incriminating answers, documents or things



(1) A person who is required to answer a question, or to discover or produce a
document or thing, in defamation proceedings is not excused from answering the
question or discovering or producing the document or thing on the ground that
the answer to the question or the discovery or production of the document or
thing might tend to incriminate the person of an offence of criminal
defamation.





(2) However, any answer given to a question, or document or thing discovered
or produced, by a natural person in compliance with the requirement is not
admissible in evidence against the person in proceedings for criminal
defamation.