Police Integrity Commission
Amendment (Reports) Bill 2003

Explanatory note
This explanatory note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament.

Overview of Bill

The object of this Bill is to amend the Police Integrity Commission Act 1996 so
as:

(a) to require each report prepared by the Police Integrity Commission to
identify its author or authors and, if there are two or more authors, to
indicate the parts of the report for which each author is responsible, and

(b) to ensure that, in relation to any matter dealt with in a hearing under that
Act, the author of the report is the person by whom the hearing was
conducted unless that person is unavailable because of illness or death or
other unavoidable cause.

Outline of provisions

Clause 1 sets out the name (also called the short title) of the proposed Act.

Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the proposed Act on the date of
assent.

Clause 3 is a formal provision that gives effect to the amendment to the Police
Integrity Commission Act 1996 set out in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1 inserts a new section 100A into the Police Integrity Commission Act
1996 so as to give effect to the object referred to above.

Note: If this Bill is not modified, these Explanatory Notes would reflect the Bill as passed in the House. If the Bill has been amended by Committee, these Explanatory Notes may not necessarily reflect the Bill as passed.

 

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