Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1968

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Repeal  
   3.      Application  
   4.      Interpretation  
   5.      Power to appoint Commission  
   6.      Chairman  
   7.      Powers of Commission  
   8.      Select Committee appointed as a Royal Commission  
   8A.     Power to obtain information from public authority or officer  
   8B.     Power to obtain documents and other things  
   9.      Power to summon witnesses and documents  
   10.     Duty of witness to continue in attendance  
   11.     Power to examine on oath  
   12A.    Contempt: failing to produce statement of information  
   13.     Contempt: failing to attend or produce documents  
   14.     Contempt: failing to be sworn or to give evidence when summoned  
   15.     Contempt: hindering execution of search warrants  
   15A.    Other contempts  
   15B.    Punishment of contempt of Commission  
   15C.    General provisions regarding contempt  
   15D.    Conditional release of defendant  
   15E.    Conduct that is both a contempt and an offence  
   16.     Arrest of witness failing to appear  
   16A.    Conditional release of a witness  
   17.     Review by Supreme Court  
   18.     Search warrants  
   19.     Nondisclosure of secret process -- evidence in private  
   19A.    General provisions as to private hearings  
   19B.    Restrictions on recording and publication of proceedings  
   20.     Statements made by witness not admissible in evidence against him  
   21.     Power of Commission in relation to documents produced  
   22.     Examination of witnesses by counsel, etc.  
   23.     Payment of witnesses  
   24.     Giving false testimony  
   25.     Bribery of witness  
   26.     Fraud on witness  
   27.     Destroying books or documents  
   28.     Preventing witness from attending  
   29.     Injury to witness  
   30.     Dismissal by employers of witness  
   31.     Protection to Commissioners, witnesses, persons appearing  
   32.     Proceedings for defamation not to lie  
   33.     Privilege, protection or immunity not limited or abridged  
   38.     Evidence of appointment to be a Commission  
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