Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

WATER ACT 2007 - SECT 236

Self - incrimination

  (1)   Nothing in this Division affects the right of a person to refuse to answer a question, give information, or produce a document, on the ground that the answer to the question, the information or the production of the document might tend to incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty.

Legal professional privilege

  (2)   Nothing in this Division affects the right of a person to refuse to answer a question, give information, or produce a document, on the ground that:

  (a)   the answer to the question or the information would be privileged from being given on the ground of legal professional privilege; or

  (b)   the document would be privileged from being produced on the ground of legal professional privilege.