117F. Interpretation for sections 117D and 117E and savings

In sections 1 17D and 1 17E -

In sections 1 17D and 1 17E, references to an offence charged include reference to any other offence of which the accused could lawfully be convicted on that charge.

A person shall not have a case to answer or be convicted of an offence solely on an inference drawn fiom such a failure or refusal as is mentioned in section 1 17D, 1 17E or 1 18.

Nothing in section 117D, 117E or 118 prejudices the operation of a provision of any written law which provides (in whatever words) that any answer or evidence given by a person in specified circumstances shall not be admissible in evidence against him or some other person in any proceedings or class of proceedings (however described, and whether civil or criminal).

In subsection (4), the reference to giving evidence is a reference to giving evidence in any manner, whether by furnishing information, making discovery, producing documents or otherwise.

Nothing in section 11 7D, 1 17E or 1 18 prejudices any power of a Court, in any proceedings, to exclude evidence (whether by preventing questions being put or otherwise) at its discretion.