Victorian Consolidated Regulations

SUPREME COURT (CRIMINAL PROCEDURE) RULES 2008 - SECT 2.33.

Special commissioners

2.33. Special commissioners



(1) An order under section 574(d) of the Act shall specify the person who is
to be the special commissioner and the question referred to the special
commissioner and may-

   (a)  specify whether the appellant or the respondent or their legal
        representatives is or are to be entitled to be present during all or
        part of the examination or investigation;

   (b)  specify which powers (if any) of the Court of Appeal may be exercised
        by the special commissioner;

   (c)  require the special commissioner to make interim reports upon the
        matter referred by the Court of Appeal;

   (d)  give the appellant, if imprisoned, leave to be present during the
        whole or any part of the examination or investigation and give the
        necessary directions to the governor of the prison; and

   (e)  direct the Registrar to give copies of the special commissioner's
        report to the appellant and the respondent or to their legal
        representatives.

(2) Where an order under section 574 does not give directions as to any of the
matters referred to in paragraph (1), the Court of Appeal may from time to
time give directions in relation to any such matters as it thinks fit.