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Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (Financial Institutions) Ordinance Part 3 Section 15 :(b) those criminal proceedings remain pending or because of the previous institution of those criminal proceedings, no criminal proceedings may again be lawfully instituted against the person under that section in respect of the same conduct.

15. Use of incriminating evidence in proceedings

(1) If an investigator requires a person to give an answer or response to a question or to give an explanation or further particulars under section 12(2) or (3), the investigator must ensure that the person has first been informed or reminded of the limitations imposed by subsection (2) on the admissibility in evidence of the requirement and of the question and answer or response, or the explanation or further particulars.

(2) Despite anything in this Ordinance and subject to subsection (3)—
 * (a) if an investigator requires a person to give an answer or response to a question or to give an explanation or further particulars under section 12(2) or (3); and
 * (b) the answer or response, or the explanation or further particulars, might tend to incriminate the person and the person so claims before giving the answer or response or giving the explanation or further particulars,

the requirement and the question and answer or response, or the explanation or further particulars, are not admissible in evidence against the person in criminal proceedings in a court of law.