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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75907</law_id><section_number>60.2-628</section_number><catch_line>Protection against self-incrimination</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="60.2">Unemployment Compensation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Benefits</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Claims Adjudication</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records before the Commission in any cause or proceeding before the Commission, on the ground that the <span class="dictionary">testimony</span> or <span class="dictionary">evidence</span>, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to <span class="dictionary">incriminate</span> him or subject him to a <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> or forfeiture. However, no individual shall be prosecuted or subjected to any <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his <span class="dictionary">privilege</span> against self-incrimination, to testify or produce <span class="dictionary">evidence</span>, documentary or otherwise, except that such individual so testifying shall not be exempt from <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> and punishment for <span class="dictionary">perjury</span> committed in so testifying.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 60-38; 1968, c. 738, &#xA7; 60.1-43; 1986, c. 480.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
