Section 164Part 6 — Forfeiture of Cash and Property
Further provisions: disclosure orders
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A disclosure order shall not confer the right to require a person to answer any privileged question, provide any privileged information or produce any privileged document, except that a legal practitioner may be required to provide the name and address of a client of that legal practitioner .
A privileged question is a question which the person would be entitled to refuse to answer on grounds of legal professional privilege in proceedings in the Grand Court.
Privileged information is any information which the person would be entitled to refuse to provide on grounds of legal professional privilege in proceedings in the Grand Court.
A disclosure order shall not confer the right to require a person to produce excluded material and has effect notwiths tanding any restriction on the disclosure of information however imposed.
A constable of or above the rank of Inspector may take copies of any documents produced in compliance with a requirement to produce them which is imposed under a disclosure order and documents so produced may be retained in their original form for so long as it is necessary to retain them in connection with the investigation for the purposes of which the order was made.
Notwithstanding subsection (5), where the Commissioner of Police has reasonable grounds for believing that the documents may have to be produced for the purposes of any legal proceedings, and they might otherwise be unavailable for those purposes they may be retained until the proceedings are concluded.
“ Exc luded material ” means —
personal records which a person has acquired or created in the course of any trade, business, profession or other occupation or for the purposes of any paid or unpaid office and which that person holds in confidence;
human t issue or tissue fluid which has been taken for the purposes of diagnosis or medical treatment and which a person holds in confidence; or
journalistic material which a person holds in confidence and which consists of documents and of records other than documents.