6Output etc not admissible in evidence

6 Output etc not admissible in evidence

6 Output etc not admissible in evidence

(1) Subject to subsection (2), anything that is, or purports to be:

(a) output from an instrument or apparatus when used in the commission of an offence against this Act referred to in section 5, or

(b) an analysis of, or opinion as to the effect of, any such output,

is inadmissible as evidence before any court or any person or body of persons authorised by law or by consent of parties to receive and examine evidence.

(2) Subsection (1) does not operate to prohibit the production or admission in evidence, for the purpose of proving the commission of an offence against this Act, of any output, analysis or opinion alleged to have been used in the commission of the offence.

(3) The court before which proceedings for an offence against this Act are brought may, at any stage of the proceedings and from time to time, make an order forbidding publication of evidence that, but for subsection (2), would be inadmissible in those proceedings, or of any report of, or report of the substance or purport of, that evidence.

(4) A person who contravenes an order made under subsection (3) is guilty of an offence against this Act.