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HOMEFUND COMMISSIONER ACT 1993 - SECT 19

19 Limits on secrecy and privilege (information and inquiries)

(1) This section applies where the Commissioner requires any person under section 16 or 17:

(a) to give any statement of information, or

(b) to produce any document or other thing, or

(c) to give a copy of any document, or

(d) to answer any question.

(2) The Commissioner must set aside the requirement if it appears to the Commissioner that any person has a ground of privilege whereby, in proceedings in a court of law, the person might resist a like requirement and it does not appear to the Commissioner that the person consents to compliance with the requirement.

(3) The person must however comply with the requirement despite:

(a) any rule of law which in proceedings in a court of law might justify an objection to compliance with a like requirement on grounds of public interest, or

(b) any privilege of a public authority which the authority could have claimed in a court of law, or

(c) any duty of secrecy or other restriction on disclosure applying to a public authority.