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AUDIT ACT 1994 - SECT 34

Legal representation and protection of legal practitioners and persons attending

    (1)     A person may be represented by a legal practitioner in relation to an attendance before the Auditor-General or an authorised person in accordance with an information gathering notice.

    (2)     A legal practitioner representing a person attending before the Auditor-General or an authorised person, or assisting the Auditor-General or an authorised person at an attendance, has the same protection and immunity as a legal practitioner has in representing a party in a proceeding in the Supreme Court.

    (3)     A person attending before the Auditor-General or an authorised person in accordance with an information gathering notice has the same protection and immunity as a witness has in a proceeding in the Supreme Court.

S. 35 inserted by No. 12/2019 s. 9.



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