Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Nothing in this
Act shall make it compulsory for a witness before a Commission to disclose to
the Commission any secret process of manufacture.
(2) If a witness
before a Commission requests that his evidence relating to a particular
subject be taken in private on the ground that the evidence relates to the
profits or financial position of any person, and that the taking of the
evidence in public would be unfairly prejudicial to the interests of that
person, the Commission may, if it thinks proper, take that evidence in
private, and, without limiting the operation of section 19A, a person who
is not expressly authorised by the Commission to be present shall not be
present during the taking of that evidence.
[(3), (4) deleted]
(5) This section shall
be read as in aid of and not as in derogation of the Commission’s
general powers to order that any evidence may be taken in private.
[Section 19 amended by No. 72 of 1990
s. 10.]