# The Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Licensing etc.) Regulations 2010, Regulation 19: Evidence


(1) An answer given by a person in compliance with a requirement imposed under paragraph 1(i) of Schedule 3 is admissible in evidence in England and Wales or Northern Ireland against that person in any proceedings or, in Scotland, against that person in criminal proceedings.
(2) In criminal proceedings in which a person mentioned in paragraph (1) is charged with an offence to which this paragraph applies, no evidence relating to that person’s answer may be adduced and no question relating to it may be asked by or on behalf of the prosecution unless evidence relating to it is adduced by or on behalf of that person.
(3) Paragraph (2) applies to any offence other than one—
(a) under regulation 20(1)(c);
(b) under section 5 of the Perjury Act 1911 (false statements made otherwise than on oath);
(c) under section 44(2) of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 (false statements made otherwise than on oath); or
(d) under article 10 of the Perjury (Northern Ireland) Order 1979.
(4) Nothing in Schedule 3 compels the production by any person of a document of which that person would on ground of legal professional privilege be entitled to withhold production on an order for disclosure or discovery in an action in the High Court or the High Court in Northern Ireland or, in relation to Scotland, on an order for the production of documents in an action in the Court of Session.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2221/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/storage-of-carbon-dioxide-licensing-etc-regulations-2010/regulation-19
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