Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00049:section:116
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00049
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 116
Character Range: 166749–167793

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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