Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00055:section:66:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00055
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 66 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 447937–450626

or a document produced, by the individual; or
 (ii) any information or document obtained as a direct or indirect consequence of the giving of the information, or the production of the document;
  will not be used in evidence in any proceedings for an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory, or in any disciplinary proceedings, against the individual, other than proceedings in respect of the falsity of evidence given by the individual;
 (b) state that, in the opinion of the Director of Public Prosecutions, there are special reasons why, in the public interest, the information or document should be available to the Commissioner; and
 (c) state the general nature of those reasons.
 (6) The Commissioner may recommend to the Director of Public Prosecutions that an individual who has been, or is to be, required under this Act to give information or produce a document be given an undertaking under subsection (5).
 (7) Subsection (3) does not apply in relation to a failure or refusal by an individual to give information, or to produce a document, on the ground that giving the information or producing the document might tend to prove his or her guilt of an offence against, or make him or her liable to forfeiture or a penalty under, a law of a State, if the Attorney‑General of the State, or a person authorised by that Attorney‑General (being the person holding the office of Director of Public Prosecutions, or a similar office, of the State) has given the individual a written undertaking under subsection (8).
 (8) An undertaking by the Attorney‑General of the State, or authorised person, shall:
 (a) be an undertaking that:
 (i) information given, or a document produced, by the individual; or
 (ii) any information or document obtained as a direct or indirect consequence of the giving of the information, or the production of the document;
  will not be used in evidence in any proceedings for an offence against a law of the State, or in any disciplinary proceedings, against the individual, other than proceedings in respect of the falsity of evidence given by the individual;
 (b) state that, in the opinion of the person giving the undertaking, there are special reasons why, in the public interest, the information or document should be available to the Commissioner; and
 (c) state the general nature of those reasons.
 (9) The Commissioner may recommend to the Attorney‑General of a State that an individual who has been, or is to be, required under this Act to give information or produce a document be given an undertaking under subsection (8).
 (10) For the purposes of subsection (1B):
 (a) it is not a reasonable excuse for a body corporate