National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 (89 of 2022)

Schedule 2   Application, saving and transitional provisions

Part 4   Facilitating investigations and inquiries

11   Transitional - summons to attend hearings

(1) This item applies in relation to any of the following:

(a) a summons issued to a person, before the transition time, by the Integrity Commissioner under subsection 83(1) of the old Act to attend a hearing to give evidence or to produce any document or thing referred to in the summons;

(b) a notation included, under subsection 91(2) of the old Act, in such a summons prohibiting the disclosure of information.

(2) The old Act continues to apply in relation to the summons and the notation as if the old Act had not been repealed.

(3) However, if the summons and any notation relates to an existing investigation or existing inquiry to which the new Act applies because of a transition determination, then the following apply:

(a) the summons is taken to have been issued by the National Anti-Corruption Commissioner under subsection 63(1) of the new Act;

(b) the notation is taken to be a non-disclosure notation included in the summons for the purposes of subsection 95(1) of the new Act.