34Legal representation and protection of legal practitioners and persons attending

34 Legal representation and protection of legal practitioners and persons attending

(1) A person may be represented by a legal practitioner in relation to an attendance before the Auditor-General or an authorised person in accordance with an information gathering notice.

(2) A legal practitioner representing a person attending before the Auditor-General or an authorised person, or assisting the Auditor-General or an authorised person at an attendance, has the same protection and immunity as a legal practitioner has in representing a party in a proceeding in the Supreme Court.

(3) A person attending before the Auditor-General or an authorised person in accordance with an information gathering notice has the same protection and immunity as a witness has in a proceeding in the Supreme Court.

S. 35 inserted by No. 12/2019 s. 9.