P.R. Laws tit. 1, § 591
The following expressions in this chapter shall have the meaning indicated hereinbelow:
(a) Agency.— Shall mean any department, office, public corporation, municipality, commission, board or government instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico where it, or its officials, have the legal power to investigate and issue summons to witnesses.
(b) Body.— Shall mean the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(c) Official.— Shall mean every person, be it a prosecutor, magistrate, judge, agent, official or employee of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, authorized to issue summons for persons to appear before him/her to offer testimony or supply documents or information.
(d) Administrative immunity.— Shall mean the protection against administrative actions that is granted by the Commonwealth to any witness in relation to the events about which he/she was forced to testify.
(e) Civil immunity.— Shall mean the protection against civil actions on the part of the Commonwealth related to events about which the witness was forced to testify.
(f) Disciplinary immunity.— Shall mean the protection against the disciplinary actions before the Supreme Court or any other board with powers to discipline its members, in relation to the conduct of an attorney or any other profession or trade, concerning the events about which he/she was forced to testify.
(g) Transactional immunity.— Shall mean the protection against any action of a penal nature in relation to the events about which the witness was forced to testify.
(h) Order.— Shall mean the one dictated by the appropriate part of the Court of First Instance pursuant to § 593 of this title, forcing a witness to testify or supply the information required by the agency or official regardless of his/her claim to the right against self-incrimination.
(i) Resolution.— Shall mean the one approved by either Body pursuant to § 596(c) of this title.
(j) Witness.— Shall mean any person forced to testify or supply documents or information in exchange for immunity regardless of his/her claim to the privilege against self-incrimination.
History —Dec. 8, 1990, No. 27, p. 1520, § 2.