Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Major Crime (Investigative Powers) Act 2004 - SECT 63

Crown privilege or secrecy does not apply

63. Crown privilege or secrecy does not apply



(1) No obligation to maintain secrecy or other restriction on the disclosure
of information obtained by or furnished to a person, where imposed by any
enactment or any rule of law, applies to the disclosure of information to the
Special Investigations Monitor under this Act.

(2) A person is not, in relation to a requirement by the Special
Investigations Monitor to answer a question, provide information or produce a
document or other thing, entitled to any privilege in respect of the
production of documents or the giving of evidence as is allowed to the Crown
by law in legal proceedings.

(3) Subject to subsections (1) and (2), a person cannot be compelled by the
Special Investigations Monitor under this Act to produce any document or give
any evidence that the person could not be compelled to produce or give in
proceedings before a court.