INDEPENDENT BROAD-BASED ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2011 - SECT 118 Offence to be present at examination
INDEPENDENT BROAD-BASED ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2011 - SECT 118
Offence to be present at examination(1) A person (other than an IBAC Officer or a Victorian Inspectorate Officer) must not be present at an examination that is not open to the public unless he or she is—
(a) attending in accordance with a witness summons duly served under section 124; or
(b) subject to section 127(2), an Australian legal practitioner representing a person who is attending in accordance with a witness summons; or
(c) entitled to be present by reason of a direction given by the IBAC under section 119; or
(d) an Australian legal practitioner, or other person, engaged by the IBAC to assist the IBAC in the examination; or
(e) any other person authorised to be present by the IBAC or otherwise authorised to be present under this Act or any other law.
Penalty: 120 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months or both.
S. 118(2) inserted by No. 30/2016 s. 30.
(2) In this section, "present" includes being remotely present.
S. 119 inserted by No. 28/2012 s. 21 (as amended by No. 82/2012 s. 151(3)), amended by No. 82/2012 s. 13.