Western Australian Current Acts

ROYAL COMMISSION (POLICE) ACT 2002

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title
            
   2.      Commencement
            
   3.      Interpretation
            
   4.      Relationship with Royal Commissions Act 1968

   PART 2 -- Obtaining information, documents and other things  

   5.      Power to obtain information
            
   6.      Power to obtain documents etc.
            
   7.      Power to enter public premises
            
   8.      Legal professional privilege

   PART 3 -- Attendance before the Commission  

   9.      Arrest of witness
            
   10.     Conditional release of a witness
            
   11.     Review by Supreme Court

   PART 4 -- Secrecy, disclosure and admissibility  

   12.     Restriction on publication of evidence
            
   13.     Restriction on disclosure
            
   14.     Application of ACC Act
            
   15.     Disclosure of information and giving of evidence by Parliamentary Commissioner
            
   16.     Application of Telecommunications (Interception) Western Australia Act 1996

   PART 5 -- Investigation of police complaints by Commission  

   17.     Interpretation
            
   18.     Termination of police investigation
            
   19.     Termination of Parliamentary Commissioner investigation
            
   20.     This Part does not require information to be disclosed by Commission

   PART 6 -- Assumed identities  

   21.     Interpretation
            
   22.     Approval for assumed identity
            
   23.     What an approval authorises
            
   24.     Duties of agencies and organisations
            
   25.     Identity of certain officers not to be disclosed in legal proceedings
            
   26.     Protection from liability
            
   27.     Report to Attorney General

   PART 7 -- Controlled operations and integrity testing programmes  

   28.     Interpretation
            
   29.     Authorisation of controlled operation
            
   30.     Commissioner may authorise integrity testing programmes
            
   31.     Effect of authorisation
            
   32.     Protection from liability
            
   33.     Evidence
            
   34.     Report to Attorney General

   PART 8 -- Surveillance Devices Act 1998 amended  

   35.     The Act amended
            
   36.     Section 4B inserted
            
   4B.     Application of Act to Royal Commission into the Police 27

   PART 9 -- Telecommunications (Interception) Western Australia Act 1996 amended  

   37.     The Act amended
            
   38.     Section 3A inserted
            
   3A.     Application of Act to Royal Commission into the Police 30

   PART 10 -- Prisons Act 1981 amended  

   39.     The Act amended
            
   40.     Section 22 amended

   PART 11 -- Miscellaneous  

   41.     Contempt
            
   42.     Victimisation
            
   43.     Secrecy
            
   44.     Delegation
            
   45.     Protection from liability
            
   46.     Matter exempt from access
            
   47.     Powers do not extend beyond end of Commission
            
   48.     Regulations
           Defined terms
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