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Water Industry Competition Act 2006
82AProvision of information, records and answering questions—self-incrimination
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#### 82A Provision of information, records and answering questions—self-incrimination
82A Provision of information, records and answering questions—self-incrimination
> > (1) A person is not guilty of an offence of failing to comply with a requirement under this Act to provide information or records or to answer a question unless the person was warned on the occasion that a failure to comply is an offence.
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> > (2) A person is not excused from a requirement under this Act to provide information or records or to answer a question on the ground that the record, information or answer might incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty.
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> > (3) However, information provided or answer given by a natural person in compliance with a requirement under this Act is not admissible in evidence against the person in criminal proceedings, except proceedings for an offence against section 73C or 73D, 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 providing the information or giving the answer on the ground that it might incriminate the person.
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> > (4) A record provided by a person in compliance with a requirement under this Act is not inadmissible in evidence against the person in criminal proceedings on the ground that the record might incriminate the person.
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> > (5) Further information obtained as a result of information or a record provided or of an answer given in compliance with a requirement under this Act is not inadmissible on the ground—
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> > > (a) that the information or records had to be provided or the answer had to be given, or
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> > > (b) that the information or record provided or answer given might incriminate the person.
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> > (6) This section extends to a requirement under this Act to state a person’s name and address.
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> **s 82A:** Ins 2021 No 26, Sch 1\[58\].