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NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2022 - SECT 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.



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