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Health Care Liability Act 2001
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#### 30 Protection from incrimination
30 Protection from incrimination
> > (1) A natural person is not excused from a requirement under section 29 to produce a document or statement or to answer a question on the ground that the document, statement or answer might incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty.
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> > (2) However, any answer given by a natural person in compliance with a requirement under section 29 is not admissible in evidence against the person in criminal proceedings (except proceedings for an offence under section 29) if—
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> > > (a) the person objected at the time to doing so on the ground that it might incriminate the person, or
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> > > (b) the person was not warned on that occasion that the person may object to giving the answer on the ground that it might incriminate the person.
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> > (3) Any document or statement produced by a person in compliance with a requirement under section 29 is not inadmissible in evidence against the person in criminal proceedings on the ground that the document or statement might incriminate the person.
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> > (4) Further information obtained as a result of a document or statement produced or an answer given in compliance with a requirement under section 29 is not inadmissible on the ground—
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> > > (a) that the document, statement or answer had to be produced or given, or
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> > > (b) that the document, statement or answer might incriminate the person.