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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
           Compilation table


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