Part 2: The Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) Admissibility of information provided to the ICRIR Section 8: Admissibility of material in civil proceedings
This section provides for the inadmissibility in certain proceedings of "protected material", defined for the purposes of this Act in subsection (5) as material obtained or produced by the ICRIR in the exercise of its functions.
	Subsection (1) provides that protected material (or evidence relating to it) is inadmissible in civil or coronial proceedings, and certain inquiries in Scotland.
	Subsection (2) provides that the restriction created by subsection (1) does not apply to proceedings related to the operation of the ICRIR and its officers, or to judicial review proceedings or equivalent in Scotland relating to the exercise of functions or the conduct of a person other than the ICRIR.
	Subsection (3) clarifies that the admissibility restrictions apply whether the material is in the form in which it was provided or in some other form, and whether the material is in the possession of the ICRIR itself or another person.
	Subsection (4) provides that protected material obtained by the ICRIR from a relevant authority under section 5 is excluded from the admissibility restriction created by this section.
	Subsection (5) creates relevant definitions, including the definition of "civil proceedings", which does not include family proceedings in each of the UK’s three jurisdictions.