EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry Act 1986 Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry Regulations
Statutory Rules 1986 No. 182
(Issued under the authority of the Special Minister of State, the Hon M.J. Young MP)
The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry Act 1986 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which, are required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the legislation.
The Act also provides for a member of the Parliamentary Commission to summon a person to appear before it and to produce documents referred to in the summons. It further provides that it shall be an offence for a person served with a summons “as prescribed” to fail to respond to that summons without reasonable excuse.
The Regulations prescribe the form of summons and the method of service of the summons and parallel similar provisions made under the Royal Commissions Act.