                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CIVIL INVESTIGATIVE DEMANDS; PROTECTED MATERIAL OR INFORMATION (§ 8.01-216.12)

A civil investigative demand issued under this article shall not require the
production of any documentary material, the submission of any answers to written
interrogatories, or the giving of any oral testimony if such material, answers,
or testimony would be protected from disclosure under (i) the standards
applicable to subpoenas or subpoenas duces tecum issued by a court of this
Commonwealth to aid in a grand jury investigation or (ii) the standards
applicable to discovery requests under the Rules of the Supreme Court of
Virginia, to the extent that the application of such standards to any such
demand is appropriate and consistent with the provisions and purposes of this
article.
		Any such demand that is an express demand for any product of discovery
supersedes any inconsistent order, rule, or provision of law, other than this
section, preventing or restraining disclosure of such product of discovery to
any person. Disclosure of any product of discovery pursuant to any such express
demand does not constitute a waiver of any right or privilege that the person
making such disclosure may be entitled to invoke to resist discovery of trial
preparation materials.

HISTORY: 2002, c. 842.