AUDITOR GENERAL ACT 2006 - SECT 36

AUDITOR GENERAL ACT 2006 - SECT 36

36 .         Duty to give information overrides other duties and rights

        (1)         A person is not excused from giving information or an explanation, answering a question or producing a document under section 34 on the ground that the information, explanation or answer, or the production of the document, might tend to incriminate the person.

        (2)         A person must give information or an explanation, answer a question or produce a document as required under section 34 despite any duty of secrecy or confidentiality that the person has under another written law, and the person does not commit an offence under another written law by doing so.

        (3)         If a person gives information or an explanation, answers a question or produces a document under section 34, neither —

            (a)         the giving of the information or explanation, answering of the question or production of the document; nor

            (b)         anything obtained as a direct or indirect result of the giving of the information or explanation, answering of the question or production of the document,

                is admissible in evidence against that person in any civil or criminal proceedings except —

            (c)         proceedings for an offence against this Division; or

            (d)         proceedings under The Criminal Code Chapter XX.

        (4)         Despite subsection (3), the person may, in any civil or criminal proceedings, be asked about an answer under the Evidence Act 1906 section 21.