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C-26 - Professional Code

Section 149
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149. A witness or professional testifying before the disciplinary council shall be bound to answer all questions. His evidence is privileged and cannot be used against him in any adjudicative proceedings. He may not invoke his obligation to protect professional secrecy as a ground for refusing to answer.
Where in camera proceedings are ordered under section 142, every person conversant with such evidence shall be personally bound to secrecy saving the right of the president of the order of which the professional is a member and of the members of the Professions Tribunal to be informed thereof in the performance of their duties.
1973, c. 43, s. 145; 1986, c. 95, s. 73; 1994, c. 40, s. 127; 2008, c. 11, s. 1, s. 109.
149. A witness or professional testifying before the committee shall be bound to answer all questions. His evidence is privileged and cannot be used against him in any judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings. He may not invoke his obligation to protect professional secrecy as a ground for refusing to answer.
Where in camera proceedings are ordered under section 142, every person conversant with such evidence shall be personally bound to secrecy saving the right of the president of the order of which the professional is a member and of the members of the Professions Tribunal to be informed thereof in the performance of their duties.
1973, c. 43, s. 145; 1986, c. 95, s. 73; 1994, c. 40, s. 127.
149. A witness or professional testifying before the committee shall be bound to answer all questions. His evidence is privileged and cannot be used against him before any court of justice.
Where in camera proceedings are ordered under section 142, every person conversant with such evidence shall be personally bound to secrecy saving the right of the president of the corporation of which the professional is a member and of the members of the tribunal hearing an appeal under section 162 to be informed thereof in the performance of their duties.
1973, c. 43, s. 145; 1986, c. 95, s. 73.
149. A witness or professional testifying before the committee shall be bound to answer all questions. His evidence is privileged and cannot be used against him before any court of justice.
Except where the hearing is public under section 142, every person conversant with such evidence shall be personally bound to secrecy saving the right of the president of the corporation of which the professional is a member and of the members of the tribunal hearing an appeal under section 162 to be informed thereof in the performance of their duties.
1973, c. 43, s. 145.
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