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Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

Section 64: Restrictions on requiring information etc.

164.This section excludes the following material from the provisions in this Chapter:

  • material subject to legal professional privilege (confidential communications between a professional legal adviser and their client relating to legal advice or proceedings);

  • confidential personal records relating to any business or profession;

  • confidential journalistic material; and

  • confidential banking information - unless the person to whom the obligation of confidence is owed consents to the disclosure or the prosecutor specifically authorises the requirement to be made.

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