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.]