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Inquiries Act 2013

Duties, powers, immunities, and privileges - Evidential matters

22: Disclosure of evidence

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"Sharing information in an inquiry: what can be shared and how it can be used"

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When you are part of an inquiry, the people in charge can decide to share some information with others involved. They can ask someone to share a specific document, some information, or an object that they already have. The people in charge can make rules about how the shared information is used. They can decide what terms and conditions apply to sharing the information and what others can do with it. You should know that the people in charge cannot make a general order to share all information, they have to be specific about what they want to share. The inquiry can set conditions on how the shared information is used, to make sure it is used properly.

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Part 3Duties, powers, immunities, and privileges
Evidential matters

22Disclosure of evidence

  1. An inquiry—

  2. may, on its own initiative or on the application of another person, order any person to disclose to any person participating in the inquiry any specified document, information, or thing that the person has produced before the inquiry; but
    1. must not make orders for general discovery.

      1. An order given under subsection (1)(a) may impose appropriate terms and conditions in relation to—

      2. any disclosure required under that subsection; and
        1. the use that may be made of the information, documents, or things required to be disclosed.