New Zealand Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 2006 - SECT 56

56 Privilege for preparatory materials for proceedings

1 Subsection (2) applies to a communication or information only if the communication or information is made, received, compiled, or prepared for the dominant purpose of preparing for a proceeding or an apprehended proceeding (the proceeding).

2 A person (the party) who is, or on reasonable grounds contemplates becoming, a party to the proceeding has a privilege in respect of—

a) a communication between the party and any other person:

b) a communication between the party’s legal adviser and any other person:

c) information compiled or prepared by the party or the party’s legal adviser:

d) information compiled or prepared at the request of the party, or the party’s legal adviser, by any other person.

3 If the proceeding is under, or to be under, Part 2 of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 or the Care of Children Act 2004 (other than a criminal proceeding under that Part or that Act), a Judge may, if satisfied that it is in the best interests of the child to do so, determine that subsection (2) does not apply in respect of any communication or information that the Judge specifies.

History: Section 56(3): amended, on 14 July 2017, by section 149 of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Oranga Tamariki) Legislation Act 2017 (2017 No 31).