Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE ACT 1969 - SECT 18B

                   Where a public work that is to be carried out outside Australia and the external Territories is referred to the Committee:

                     (a)  the Committee shall consider the work on the basis of plans, models and statements placed before it and of the evidence (if any) taken by it;

                     (b)  the Committee is not entitled to require or request the attendance before it of any person who is outside Australia; and

                     (c)  the Committee may receive statements, in writing, relevant to its consideration of the work, from any person who is in or outside Australia, and may take evidence from any person who is in Australia.