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ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1968 - SECT 19A

ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1968 - SECT 19A

19A .         General provisions as to private hearings

                If a Commission is taking evidence in private, or conducting the inquiry in private, a person who is not expressly authorised by the Commission to be present shall not be present and, notwithstanding any other law —

            (a)         the Commission is not required to authorise the presence of any person except that when evidence is being taken from a witness in private a person authorised by the Commission to appear before it for the purpose of representing that witness is entitled to be present;

            (b)         the Commission is not required to make known to any person, during the course of the inquiry, the content or nature of any evidence taken in private.

        [Section 19A inserted: No. 72 of 1990 s. 11.]