New South Wales Consolidated Acts

OMBUDSMAN ACT 1974 - SECT 31G

31G Evidence

(1) The Joint Committee has power to send for persons, papers and records.

(2) Subject to section 31H, the Joint Committee must take all evidence in public.

(3) If the Joint Committee as constituted at any time has taken evidence in relation to a matter but the Committee as so constituted has ceased to exist before reporting on the matter, the Committee as constituted at any subsequent time, whether during the same or another Parliament, may consider that evidence as if it had taken the evidence.

(4) The production of documents to the Joint Committee is to be in accordance with the practice of the Legislative Assembly with respect to the production of documents to select committees of the Legislative Assembly.