COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY ACT 1950 - SECT 19B
Commission’s custody of books etc.
COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY ACT 1950 - SECT 19B
Commission’s custody of books etc.
19B Commission’s custody of books etc.
(1) The chairperson may cause any book, document, writing or record or
property or thing of whatever description produced to a commission, whether or
not it is tendered in evidence, to be kept in such custody as the chairperson
directs (the chairperson, taking reasonable care for its preservation)—
(a)
until the commission has completed its inquiry and report and thereafter for a
time reasonable for the purpose of establishing whether paragraph (b) is or is
likely to be relevant to the case; and
(b) if a person is committed for trial
for an offence committed with respect to such book, document, writing, record,
property or thing or an offence committed in such circumstances that the book,
document, writing, record, property or thing would be likely to afford
evidence at the trial—until it is produced in evidence at the trial.
(2) If
no person is committed for trial for an offence referred to in subsection (1)
(b) the book, document, writing, record, property or thing kept in custody
pursuant to a chairperson’s direction shall be returned to the person from
whom it was seized or taken unless the chairperson acting under authority
conferred on the chairperson by law directs that it be disposed of otherwise.
