CHAPTER 486
PERSONAL DATA (PRIVACY) ORDINANCE
Part VII - INSPECTIONS, COMPLAINTS
AND INVESTIGATIONS
45. Protection of witnesses,
etc.
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Every person shall have the same privileges in
relation to the giving of information, the answering
of questions, and the production of documents
and things, for the purposes of an investigation,
as witnesses have in civil proceedings in the
Hight Court but any rule of law which authorizes
or requires the withholding of any document or
thing, or the refusal to answer any question,
on the ground that the disclosure of the document
or thing or the answering of the question, as
the case may be, would be injurious to the public
interest. shall not apply in respect of any investigation.
(Amended 25 of 1998 s.2)
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Except on the trial of any person for perjury in respect
of his sworn testimony, or for an offence under this
Ordinance, no statement made or answer given by that
or any other person in the course of any investigation
shall be admissible in evidence against any person,
before any magistrate or in any court or at any inquiry
or in any other proceedings, and no evidence in respect
of an investigation shall be given against any person.
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Where the giving of any information or the answering
of any question or the production of any document
or thing would involve the disclosure, without
the consent of the Chief Executive, of the deliberations
of the Executive Council, the Commissioner shall
not require the information or answer to be given
or, as the case may be, the document or thing
to be produced. (Amended 34 of 1999 s.3)
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