Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Where the
Commissioner has decided to investigate any matter under this Act —
(a) the
Commissioner has all the powers, rights and privileges that are specified in
the Royal Commissions Act 1968 , as appertaining to a Royal
Commission and the Chairman thereof; and
(b) all
the provisions of that Act have effect as if they were enacted in this
Act and in terms made applicable to the Commissioner and that matter as
if the matter were one into which a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire
under that Act.
(2)(a) No obligation
to maintain secrecy or other restriction upon the disclosure of information
obtained by or furnished to persons in the service of the Crown or any
authority to which this Act applies, whether imposed by any enactment or by
any rule of law, applies to the disclosure of information for the purposes of
an investigation under this Act.
(b) The
Crown or any authority to which this Act applies is not entitled in
relation to any such investigation to any such privilege in respect of the
production of documents or the giving of evidence as is allowed by law in
legal proceedings.
(3) Subject to
subsection (2), a person is not compelled for the purposes of an
investigation under this Act to give any evidence or produce any document
that he could not be compelled to give or produce in proceedings before a
court.
[Section 20 amended by No. 68 of 1976
s. 6.]