14Public Interest Monitor to give information and access despite other laws

14 Public Interest Monitor to give information and access despite other laws

(1) Despite any other law, a Public Interest Monitor is not excused from giving information, answering a question, or giving access to a document, as and when required by or under section 13, on the ground that giving the information, answering the question, or giving access to the document, as the case may be, would contravene a law, would be contrary to the public interest or might tend to incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty but—

(a) the information, the answer, or the fact that the person has so given access to the document, as the case may be; and

(b) any information or thing (including a document) obtained as a direct consequence of giving the first-mentioned information, answering the question or giving access to the first-mentioned document, as the case may be—

is not admissible in evidence against the person except in proceedings for an offence under this Act.

(2) Nothing in any other law prevents a Public Interest Monitor from—

S. 14(2)(a) amended by No. 31/2024 s. 113(Sch. 1 item 1.20).

(a) giving information to an Integrity Oversight Victoria Officer (whether orally or in writing and whether or not in answer to a question); or

S. 14(2)(b) amended by No. 31/2024 s. 113(Sch. 1 item 1.20).

(b) giving to an Integrity Oversight Victoria Officer access to a relevant record—

for the purposes of an inspection under section 13.

(3) Nothing in any other law prevents a Public Interest Monitor from making a record of information, or causing a record of information to be made, for the purposes of giving the information to a person as permitted by subsection (2).