Commonwealth Numbered Acts

INDUSTRY COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 9 of 1990 - SECT 44

44. (1) A Commissioner has, in the performance of duties under this Act, the
same protection and immunity as a Justice of the High Court.

(2) A person appearing as a witness at a hearing has the same protection, and
is, in addition to the penalties provided by this Act, subject to the same
liabilities, in any civil or criminal proceedings as a witness in proceedings
in the High Court.

(3) A person appearing at a hearing on behalf of another person has the same
protection and immunity as a barrister has in appearing for a party in
proceedings in the High Court.

(4) Where a person, for the purposes of this Act, sends a statement or
document to the Commission, subsection (2) applies to the person as if the
person appeared as a witness at a hearing and produced that statement or
document at the hearing.