ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1968 - SECT 15A
ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1968 - SECT 15A
15A . Other contempts
(1) A person who
—
(a)
threatens or insults —
(i)
a Commission;
(ii)
a person appointed by the Attorney General to assist a
Commission;
(iii)
any witness summoned to attend or appearing before a
Commission; or
(iv)
a person authorised by a Commission to appear before it
for the purpose of representing any person;
(b)
interrupts the proceedings of a Commission without reasonable excuse;
(c)
creates or continues or joins in creating or continuing, a disturbance in or
near a place where a Commission is conducting an inquiry; or
(d) does
anything else at an inquiry conducted by the Commission or otherwise that
would be contempt of court if the Commission were a Judge acting judicially,
is in contempt of the
Commission.
(2) A Commission may
order that a person who under subsection (1) is in contempt of the Commission
at an inquiry be excluded from the place where the inquiry is being conducted.
(3) An officer of the
Commission, acting under the Commission’s order, may exclude the person
from the place and may use necessary and reasonable help and force to do so.
[Section 15A inserted: No. 30 of 2006 s. 8.]