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AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 35A

Relationship to other laws and matters

  (1)   Subject to subsection   (2) and section   35R, this Division is not intended to limit a discretion that a court has:

  (a)   to admit or exclude evidence in any proceedings; or

  (b)   to stay criminal proceedings in the interests of justice.

  (2)   In determining whether evidence should be admitted or excluded in any proceedings, the fact that the evidence was obtained as a result of a person engaging in criminal activity is to be disregarded if:

  (a)   the person was a participant in a special intelligence operation authorised under this Division acting in the course of the special intelligence operation; and

  (b)   the criminal activity was special intelligence conduct.



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