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The Women’s Advocate Office shall take steps to guarantee the confidentiality of the communications and information it receives from its clients during the course of rendering services to prevent domestic violence and intervene with its victims. All communications between the persons attended to in the Women’s Advocate Office and its personnel shall be privileged and shall be protected by the confidentiality privilege established in the Rules of Evidence of Puerto Rico. Likewise, all communications between a victim of domestic violence and any other public entity or body, which renders services to victims of domestic abuse, shall enjoy the same privilege and confidentiality, in harmony with Rule 26-A of the Rules of Evidence of Puerto Rico and the Bill of Rights of Victims and Witnesses of Crime. History —Aug. 15, 1989, No. 54, p. 199, § 4.2; Apr. 23, 2004, No. 96, § 3; July 27, 2005, No. 30, § 1.