Commissions of Inquiry Act 1950 (Qld)

Commissions of Inquiry Act 1950

An Act to make further and better provision for facilitating inquiries by commissions of inquiry

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1950.

2 [Repealed]

3 Definitions In this Act— authority of a deputy to the commission means the powers, authorities, duties and functions which a deputy to a commission is authorised to exercise or perform in accordance with this Act. chairperson means the chairperson of any commission, whether appointed by the instrument creating the commission or otherwise, including the person for the time being acting as chairperson and, in cases where a commission is constituted by a sole commissioner, means such commissioner. commission means any commission of inquiry issued by the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council of this State, under the Governor's hand and the Public Seal of the State, and includes the members of the commission, or a quorum thereof, or the sole commissioner in cases where the commission is constituted of a sole commissioner, sitting for the purposes of the inquiry and, where by an instrument other than a commission of inquiry as aforesaid the Governor in Council appoints a person or persons to make an inquiry into or with respect to any matter or matters and declares in that instrument of appointment or in a separate instrument that this Act or specified provisions of this Act shall be applicable for the purposes of that inquiry, then for the purposes of so applying this Act or, as the case may be, the provisions of this Act specified as aforesaid, includes that instrument of appointment and the person, or persons, or a quorum of the persons thereby appointed sitting for the purposes of the inquiry thereunder. commissioner means any person to whom a commission is issued (whether as 1 of several members of a commission or as sole commissioner). deputy to a commission means a person who is appointed a deputy to a commission. listening device see the Invasion of Privacy Act 1971. reasonable excuse, in relation to any act or omission by a witness or a person summoned to attend before a commission as a witness, means an excuse which would excuse an act or omission of a similar nature by a witness or a person summoned to attend before a court of law as a witness. record means any collection of data in whatever form it may be held and includes data held on film, disc, tape, perforated roll or other device in which visual representations or sounds are embodied so as to be capable, with or without the aid of another process or instrument, of being reproduced therefrom.