Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Evidence Act 1958 - SECT 19D

Legal professional privilege

19D. Legal professional privilege



(1) Despite anything to the contrary in this Division, if a person is required
by a commission to answer a question or produce a document or thing, the
person is not excused from complying with the requirement on the ground that
the answer to the question would disclose, or the document contains, or the
thing discloses, matter in respect of which the person could claim legal
professional privilege.

(2) The commissioner may require the person to comply with the requirement at
a hearing of the commission from which the public, or specified persons, are
excluded in accordance with section 19B.