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EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 20H

EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 20H

20H .         Application of protection provisions (journalists)

        (1)         The protection provisions (journalists) do not apply in relation to a proceeding the hearing of which began before the commencement of those provisions.

        (2)         The protection provisions (journalists) apply in relation to information given by an informant whether given before or after the commencement of those provisions.

        (3)         The protection provisions (journalists) apply to a person acting judicially in any proceeding even if the law by which the person has authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence provides that this Act does not apply to the proceeding.

        (4)         The protection provisions (journalists) are not intended to exclude or limit the operation of section 5 or the power that a person acting judicially has under any other law of the State to take any action if it is in the interests of justice to do so.

        [Section 20H inserted: No. 31 of 2012 s. 5.]