Criminal Procedure Act 1986
297Protected confidences—preliminary criminal proceedings
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297 Protected confidences—preliminary criminal proceedings
297 Protected confidences—preliminary criminal proceedings
(1) A person cannot seek to compel (whether by subpoena or any other procedure) any other person to produce a document recording a protected confidence in, or in connection with, any preliminary criminal proceedings.
(2) A document recording a protected confidence cannot be produced in, or in connection with, any preliminary criminal proceedings.
(3) Evidence cannot be adduced in any preliminary criminal proceedings if it would disclose a protected confidence or the contents of a document recording a protected confidence.
s 297 (previously s 149): Renumbered 2001 No 119, Sch 1 [126]. Subst 2010 No 135, Sch 12.1 [5].