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STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 12
Power to hold inquiry
12 Power to hold inquiry
(1) The Coordinator-General may, of his or her own motion, and shall, at the
direction of the Minister, institute and conduct an inquiry into any matter
that, in the opinion of the Coordinator-General or of the Minister, is one
with which the Coordinator-General should be concerned in the proper
performance of the Coordinator-General’s functions under any Act or that
would further the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Governor in Council may, in
relation to a particular inquiry to be conducted under this Act, upon the
recommendation of the Minister, declare by regulation that the inquiry therein
specified shall be conducted as a commission of inquiry under the
Commissions of Inquiry Act 1950 whereupon the Coordinator-General or, as the
case may be, the Coordinator-General’s delegate who conducts the inquiry may
exercise and shall have the powers, authorities, protection and jurisdiction
of a commission under that Act and of a chairperson of such a commission
except such as are by that Act confined to a chairperson who is a judge of the
Supreme Court and the provisions of that Act shall apply accordingly.
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