19BLegal effect of private sessions

19B Legal effect of private sessions

[Section 19B of Part 3 Inserted by No. 4 of 2021, s. 16, Applied:01 Mar 2021]

(1)  The following are not admissible in evidence against a person in any civil or criminal proceedings, other than proceedings for an offence in section 19C , in any court:

(a) a statement or disclosure made by the person –

(i) at a private session; or

(ii) to a member of a Commission solely for the purposes of a private session or proposed private session;

(b) the production of a document or other thing by the person at a private session.

(2)  A person who appears, or is authorised to be, at a private session has the same protection and immunity, and is subject to the same liabilities in respect of any civil or criminal proceedings, as a witness has in a case tried in the Supreme Court.

(3)  A legal practitioner who appears on behalf of another person at a private session has the same protection and immunity as a barrister has in appearing for a party in proceedings in the Supreme Court.