LAW REFORM COMMISSION ACT 1967 - SECT 10
Powers and duties of Commission
LAW REFORM COMMISSION ACT 1967 - SECT 10
Powers and duties of Commission
10 Powers and duties of Commission
(1) The Commission, in accordance with any reference to it made by the
Minister:
(a) shall consider the law, enacted or promulgated by the
Legislature of New South Wales or by any person under the authority of that
Legislature, with a view to, or for the purpose of:
(i) eliminating defects
and anachronisms in the law,
(ii) repealing obsolete or unnecessary
enactments,
(iii) consolidating, codifying or revising the law,
(iv)
simplifying or modernising the law by bringing it into accord with current
conditions,
(v) adopting new or more effective methods for the administration
of the law and the dispensation of justice,
(vi) systematically developing
and reforming the law,
(b) shall consider proposals relating to matters in
respect of which it is competent for the Legislature of New South Wales or any
person under the authority of that Legislature to enact or promulgate laws,
and
(c) may for the purposes of this section hold and conduct such inquiries
as it thinks fit.
(2) For the purposes of any inquiry under this section:
(a)
the Commission and the Chairperson shall have the powers, authorities,
protections and immunities conferred on a commissioner by Division 1 of Part 2
of the Royal Commissions Act 1923 , and that Act (section 13 and Division 2
of Part 2 excepted) shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to any witness summoned by
or appearing before the Commission,
(b) the provisions of Division 2 of Part
2 of that Act (section 17 excepted) shall apply where the Chairperson or the
Deputy Chairperson, if he or she is a judge of the Supreme Court and is acting
as Chairperson, is presiding at the inquiry, and
(c) the provisions of
section 17 (1), (2) and (3) of that Act shall apply where the Minister has, at
any time, in, or in relation to, the reference to which the inquiry relates,
declared those provisions to apply and where the commissioner presiding at the
inquiry is a judge of the Supreme Court.
