Victorian Current Acts

EVIDENCE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1958 - SECT 42BR

    (1)     This section applies if—

        (a)     an interstate witness identity protection certificate for an interstate operative in relation to a proceeding is filed in a court; and

        (b)     there is a jury in the proceeding; and

        (c)     the interstate operative gives evidence.

S. 42BR(2) amended by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 54.18).

    (2)     The court must (unless it considers it inappropriate) direct the jury not to give the interstate operative's evidence any more or less weight, or draw any adverse inferences against the accused or another party to the proceeding, because—

        (a)     there is an interstate witness identity protection certificate for the interstate operative; or

        (b)     the court has made an order under section 42BN or section 42BQ.

S. 42BS inserted by No. 60/2004 s. 3.