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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.]