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National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022
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#### 99 Meaning of investigation material
(1) Investigation material is any of the following:
(a) particular information given, or a document or thing produced, by a person as required by a notice to produce;
(b) particular information or evidence given by a person at a hearing;
(c) a document or thing produced by a person at a hearing;
(d) particular information, or a document or thing, given to a person during a hearing;
(e) the identity, or particular information that may reveal the identity, of a person who has given evidence at a hearing;
(f) the identity, or particular information that may reveal the identity, of a person about whom allegations have been made at a hearing;
(g) the fact that a particular person has given or may be about to give evidence at a hearing;
(h) the identity, or particular information that may reveal the identity, of a person of interest to a corruption investigation, if the identity or information was revealed at a hearing;
(i) the fact that a hearing has been, or may be, held in private.
(2) Investigation material includes copies, contents or descriptions of that material.
(3) To avoid doubt, information, a document or a thing is not investigation material to the extent that it is obtained otherwise than:
(a) as required by a notice to produce; or
(b) at a hearing.
(4) The witness, in relation to investigation material covered by paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) or (h), is the person mentioned in that paragraph.
(5) The witness, in relation to derivative material, means the person who is the witness in relation to the investigation material from which the derivative material was obtained.