Royal Commissions Amendment (Private Sessions) Act 2019 (64 of 2019)

Schedule 1   Main amendments

Royal Commissions Act 1902

16   Subsections 6OC(3) and (4)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

Powers of Commission and custody and use of records

(3) Sections 6F (power of Commission in relation to documents and other things), 6P (Commission may communicate information) and 9 (custody and use of records of Royal Commission) apply as if information, a document, record or other thing that was:

(a) obtained at a private session for a Royal Commission by a member holding the private session; or

(b) given to a member, or member of the staff, of a Royal Commission for the purposes of a private session (whether or not a private session was, or is to be, held for the Commission);

were produced before, delivered or given to, or otherwise obtained or received by, the Commission.

(4) Section 9 (custody and use of records of Royal Commission) also applies as if a record that was produced:

(a) at a private session for a Royal Commission by a member holding the private session; or

(b) by a member, or member of the staff, of a Royal Commission for the purposes of a private session (whether or not a private session was, or is to be, held for the Commission);

were produced by the Commission.