PRIVACY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION ACT 1998 - SECT 6
Courts, tribunals and Royal Commissions not affected
PRIVACY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION ACT 1998 - SECT 6
Courts, tribunals and Royal Commissions not affected
6 Courts, tribunals and Royal Commissions not affected
(1) Nothing in this Act affects the manner in which a court or tribunal, or
the manner in which the holder of an office relating to a court or tribunal,
exercises the court's, or the tribunal's, judicial functions.
(2) Nothing in
this Act affects the manner in which a Royal Commission, or any Special
Commission of Inquiry, exercises the Commission's functions.
(3) In this
section,
"judicial functions" of a court or tribunal means such of the functions of the
court or tribunal as relate to the hearing or determination of proceedings
before it, and includes--
(a) in relation to a Magistrate--such of the
functions of the Magistrate as relate to the conduct of committal proceedings,
and
(b) in relation to a coroner--such of the functions of the coroner as
relate to the conduct of inquests and inquiries under the Coroners Act 2009 .
