Commerce Amendment Bill.pdf [pdf, 177 KB]
...for pecuniary penalties. This protection is not limited to the Commission and would apply to criminal proceedings brought by other agencies. While the protection extends only to answers given by a person and not pre-existing documents produced in response to a request, we consider there is a greater expectation in a commercial regulatory environment that a person operating within that environment may need to account for their activities and produce documentation which may then be relied...