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ROYAL COMMISSIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991
NEW SOUTH WALES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Explanatory Note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament)
The object of this Bill is to amend the Royal Commissions Act 1923 so as:
(a) to empower a Royal Commission to communicate information or furnish
material obtained by it during the course of its inquiry:
· to another Commission of Inquiry if the information or material relates or
may relate to matters within the other Commission's terms of reference; or
· to a law enforcement agency (including a task force) if the information or
material relates or may relate to a breach of the law; and
(b) to expressly require documents and other things held by a Royal Commission
to be returned to the person entitled to them when they are no longer
reasonably required, unless they are furnished to another Commission of
Inquiry or to a law enforcement agency or are otherwise dealt with according to
law.
Clause 1 specifies the short title of the proposed Act.
Clause 2 provides that the proposed Act is to commence on the date of assent.
Clause 3 is a formal provision that gives effect to the Schedule of amendments to
the Royal Commissions Act 1923.
Clause 4 contains a transitional provision under which the amendments made by the
proposed Act will apply to existing as well as future Royal Commissions.
Schedule 1 (1) makes the amendment described in paragraph (b) above.
Schedule 1 (2) makes the amendment described in paragraph (a) above.