Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TAXATION ADMINISTRATION AMENDMENT ACT 1992No. 47, 1992 - SECT 6

6. After section 17B of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Requests to be prescribed as an eligible Royal Commission

"17C.(1) This section applies to:

   (a)  a Royal Commission of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or

   (b)  a commission of inquiry of a State or a Territory; or

   (c)  a board of inquiry of a State or a Territory.

"(2) The person, or any of the persons, constituting the commission or board
may give the Minister a written request that the Governor-General make a
regulation prescribing the commission or board for the purposes of paragraph
(b), (c) or (d) of the definition of 'eligible Royal Commission' in section 2.

"(3) Within 28 days after receiving the request, the Minister must give the
person who made the request a written notice:

   (a)  stating whether or not the Governor-General will make the regulation;
        and

   (b)  setting out the reasons why the regulation will be made, or will not
        be made, as the case requires.

"(4) The Minister must cause a copy of a notice given under subsection (3) to
be laid before each House of the Parliament on the next sitting day of that
House after the day on which the notice was given.".