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ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1968
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
1. Short title
2. Repeal
3. Application
4. Interpretation
5. Power to appoint Commission
6. Chairman
7. Powers of Commission
8. Select Committee appointed as a Royal Commission
8A. Power to obtain information from public authority or officer
8B. Power to obtain documents and other things
9. Power to summon witnesses and documents
10. Duty of witness to continue in attendance
11. Power to examine on oath
12A. Contempt: failing to produce statement of information
13. Contempt: failing to attend or produce documents
14. Contempt: failing to be sworn or to give evidence when summoned
15. Contempt: hindering execution of search warrants
15A. Other contempts
15B. Punishment of contempt of Commission
15C. General provisions regarding contempt
15D. Conditional release of defendant
15E. Conduct that is both a contempt and an offence
16. Arrest of witness failing to appear
16A. Conditional release of a witness
17. Review by Supreme Court
18. Search warrants
19. Nondisclosure of secret process -- evidence in private
19A. General provisions as to private hearings
19B. Restrictions on recording and publication of proceedings
20. Statements made by witness not admissible in evidence against him
21. Power of Commission in relation to documents produced
22. Examination of witnesses by counsel, etc.
23. Payment of witnesses
24. Giving false testimony
25. Bribery of witness
26. Fraud on witness
27. Destroying books or documents
28. Preventing witness from attending
29. Injury to witness
30. Dismissal by employers of witness
31. Protection to Commissioners, witnesses, persons appearing
32. Proceedings for defamation not to lie
33. Privilege, protection or immunity not limited or abridged
38. Evidence of appointment to be a Commission
Defined terms
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