New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROYAL COMMISSION (POLICE SERVICE) ACT 1994 - SECT 3

3 Act applies only to Police Royal Commission

(1) This Act applies only to:

(a) the Royal Commission of inquiry issued by the Governor by letters patent under the Public Seal on 13 May 1994, appointing the Honourable James Roland Tomson Wood sole commissioner to make inquiry into, and report on, the operations of the New South Wales Police Service, and

(b) any further Royal Commission by which a commissioner is appointed as sole commissioner to exercise functions at the request of, or otherwise to assist, the Royal Commissioner under the Royal Commission referred to in paragraph (a), but only if the terms of that further Royal Commission provide that this Act is to apply to the Commission.

(2) If a Royal Commission to which this Act applies is altered, extended or continued by another Royal Commission, or is replaced by another Royal Commission on the same or similar terms as that Royal Commission, this Act extends to apply to the Royal Commission as so altered, extended, continued or replaced.