Inquiries (Amendment) Act 1996 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Inquiries (Amendment) Act 1996

No. 19 of 1996

An Act to amend the Inquiries Act 1991

[Notified in ACT Gazette S93: 27 May 1996]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Inquiries (Amendment) Act 1996.

Commencement

2.  This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Inquiries Act 1991.1

Insertion

4.  After section 14 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Tabling of reports

“14A.  (1)  The Chief Minister may lay a copy of a report or part of a report submitted by a Board before the Legislative Assembly.

“(2)  The Chief Minister may make a report or part of a report public whether or not the Legislative Assembly is sitting and whether or not the report or part has been laid before the Assembly.

“(3)  Where a report or part of a report is made public by the Chief Minister before it is laid before the Legislative Assembly, the report or part attracts the same privileges and immunities as if the report or part had been laid before the Assembly.”.

NOTE

1. Reprinted as at 28 February 1995.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 18 April 1996]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1996