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NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2022 - SECT 116

Other protections

  (1)   A person who gives an answer or information, or produces a document or thing, as required by a direction to produce, a notice to produce, or at a hearing, has the same protection as a witness in proceedings in the High Court.

  (2)   The Commissioner may make such arrangements as are necessary to do the following:

  (a)   to prevent prejudice to the safety of a person because the person or another person:

  (i)   has, or is to, respond to a notice to produce; or

  (ii)   has been, or is to be, a witness at a hearing;

  (b)   to protect a person from intimidation or harassment because the person or another person:

  (i)   has, or is to, respond to a notice to produce; or

  (ii)   has been, or is to be, a witness at a hearing.

  (3)   The arrangements include arrangements with:

  (a)   the Minister; or

  (b)   the AFP Commissioner; or

  (c)   the head (however described) of the police force of a State or Territory.

  (4)   This section does not limit the Witness Protection Act 1994 .



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