Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1902 - SECT 6F

             (1)  A Commission, a member of a Commission or a person who is an authorized person in relation to a Commission may:

                     (a)  inspect any documents or other things:

                              (i)  produced before, or delivered to, the Commission; or

                             (ii)  produced under a notice under subsection 2(3A) or 6AA(3); and

                     (b)  retain the documents or other things for so long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes of the inquiry to which the documents or other things are relevant; and

                     (c)  in the case of documents:

                              (i)  produced before, or delivered to, the Commission; or

                             (ii)  produced under a notice under subsection 2(3A) or 6AA(3);

                            make copies of any documents that contain matter that is relevant to a matter into which the Commission is inquiring.

             (2)  Where the retention of a document or other thing by a Commission ceases to be reasonably necessary for the purposes of the inquiry to which the document or other thing is relevant, the Commission shall, if a person who appears to the Commission to be entitled to the document or other thing so requests, cause the document or other thing to be delivered to that person unless the Commission has furnished the document or other thing to a person or body referred to in paragraph 6P(1)(a), (aa), (c), (d), (da) or (e) or subsection 6P(2), (2A) or (2B).

          (2A)  Subsection (2) has effect subject to subsection 9(10).

             (3)  In subsection (1), a reference to a person who is an authorized person in relation to a Commission is a reference to a person authorized in writing, or a person included in a class of persons authorized in writing, for the purposes of that subsection by the President or Chair of that Commission, or by the sole Commissioner, as the case may be.