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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 85

Information Commissioner investigations--protection from liability

  (1)   This section applies if a person does any of the following in good faith for the purposes of an investigation:

  (a)   gives information;

  (b)   produces a document;

  (c)   answers a question.

  (2)   If this section applies, then:

  (a)   civil proceedings do not lie against a person because the person does any of the matters mentioned in paragraphs   (1)(a) to (c); and

  (b)   the person is not liable for a penalty under a provision of any law because the person does any of those matters.

  (3)   This section applies whether or not the person is required to do a thing mentioned in subsection   (1) in accordance with this Division.



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