ROYAL COMMISSION (POLICE) ACT 2002

Table of Provisions

• Long Title

PART 1 -- Preliminary  

• 1 Short title
 
• 2 Commencement
 
• 3 Interpretation
 
• 4 Relationship with Royal Commissions Act 1968

PART 2 -- Obtaining information, documents and other things  

• 5 Power to obtain information
 
• 6 Power to obtain documents etc.
 
• 7 Power to enter public premises
 
• 8 Legal professional privilege

PART 3 -- Attendance before the Commission  

• 9 Arrest of witness
 
• 10 Conditional release of a witness
 
• 11 Review by Supreme Court

PART 4 -- Secrecy, disclosure and admissibility  

• 12 Restriction on publication of evidence
 
• 13 Restriction on disclosure
 
• 14 Application of ACC Act
 
• 15 Disclosure of information and giving of evidence by Parliamentary Commissioner
 
• 16 Application of Telecommunications (Interception) Western Australia Act 1996

PART 5 -- Investigation of police complaints by Commission  

• 17 Interpretation
 
• 18 Termination of police investigation
 
• 19 Termination of Parliamentary Commissioner investigation
 
• 20 This Part does not require information to be disclosed by Commission

PART 6 -- Assumed identities  

• 21 Interpretation
 
• 22 Approval for assumed identity
 
• 23 What an approval authorises
 
• 24 Duties of agencies and organisations
 
• 25 Identity of certain officers not to be disclosed in legal proceedings
 
• 26 Protection from liability
 
• 27 Report to Attorney General

PART 7 -- Controlled operations and integrity testing programmes  

• 28 Interpretation
 
• 29 Authorisation of controlled operation
 
• 30 Commissioner may authorise integrity testing programmes
 
• 31 Effect of authorisation
 
• 32 Protection from liability
 
• 33 Evidence
 
• 34 Report to Attorney General

PART 8 -- Surveillance Devices Act 1998 amended  

• 35 The Act amended
 
• 36 Section 4B inserted
  4B. Application of Act to Royal Commission into the Police 27

PART 9 -- Telecommunications (Interception) Western Australia Act 1996 amended  

• 37 The Act amended
 
• 38 Section 3A inserted
  3A. Application of Act to Royal Commission into the Police 30

PART 10 -- Prisons Act 1981 amended  

• 39 The Act amended
 
• 40 Section 22 amended

PART 11 -- Miscellaneous  

• 41 Contempt
 
• 42 Victimisation
 
• 43 Secrecy
 
• 44 Delegation
 
• 45 Protection from liability
 
• 46 Matter exempt from access
 
• 47 Powers do not extend beyond end of Commission
 
• 48 Regulations
Defined terms
• Compilation table