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Immunity of records

from search and from production in court.

490. (1) No search warrant shal be

issued, or if issued be executed, in respect

of any record of confidential information

which is kept by the Registry or by a

reporting agency.

(2) Save as provided in this Part, no

power, or right, of search conferred by any

law shall authorize the search of records

of confidential information which are kept

by the Registry or by a reporting agency.

(3) No process shall lie in any

proceedings to compel production of any

record of confidential information which is

kept by the Registry or by a reporting

agency, and no such record, nor any

information obtained therefrom, shall be

admissible in evidence, save

(a)

in proceedings for an offence

under this Part; or

(b) where the record is the

subject of an order of the

Attorney General which is in

force under section 49G,

but nothing in this subsection shall render

admissible anything which is otherwise

inadmissible.

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