Royal Commissions Amendment (Private Sessions) Act 2019 (64 of 2019)

Schedule 1   Main amendments

Royal Commissions Act 1902

42   Application provisions

(1) The amendment of subsection 5(3) of the Royal Commissions Act 1902 made by this Schedule applies in relation to an application made by telephone on or after the commencement of this item.

(2) Paragraph 6OAB(b), and the amendments of section 6OB, subsections 6OC(1), (2), (5) and (6) and sections 6OG and 6OJ, of the Royal Commissions Act 1902, as inserted or made by this Schedule, apply in relation to a Royal Commission that conducts an inquiry after the commencement of this item, whether the Royal Commission is established before, on or after that commencement.

(3) Subsections 6OC(3) and (4) of the Royal Commissions Act 1902, as amended by this Schedule, apply in relation to information, a document, record or other thing obtained, given or produced before, on or after the commencement of this item.

(4) Section 6OE of the Royal Commissions Act 1902, as amended by this Schedule (including as it applies in accordance with section 6ON of that Act, as added by this Schedule), applies in relation to civil or criminal proceedings instituted on or after the commencement of this item, whether the statements or disclosures mentioned in section 6OE were made before, on or after that commencement.

(5) Sections 6OH, 6OK and 6OL of the Royal Commissions Act 1902, as amended by this Schedule (including as those provisions apply in accordance with section 6ON of that Act, as added by this Schedule), apply in relation to the making of a record, or the use or disclosure, of information by a person on or after the commencement of this item, whether the person obtains the information before, on or after that commencement.

(6) Section 6OM of the Royal Commissions Act 1902, as amended by this Schedule (including as it applies in accordance with section 6ON of that Act, as added by this Schedule), applies in relation to a record that comes into existence before, on or after the commencement of this item.