Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In this Act,
unless the contrary intention appears —
administrative record means a record of an
administrative nature relating to the operations of the Royal Commission;
confidential record means —
(a) a
record obtained by or on behalf of the Royal Commission (whether or not under
compulsion) that is the subject of an assurance of confidentiality given by or
on behalf of the Royal Commission; or
(b) a
record of a statement, or of an interview or of information obtained by or on
behalf of the Royal Commission, being a statement, or an interview or
information (whether or not obtained under compulsion) that is the subject of
an assurance of confidentiality given by or on behalf of the Royal Commission,
but does not include a transcript record;
copy , in relation to a record, includes a copy
that is in a different form or medium than the record itself;
Director of State Records means the Director of
State Records under the State Records Act 2000 ;
DPP means the Director of Public Prosecutions
under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1991 ;
former Commissioners means the persons who were
the members of the Royal Commission before it delivered its report under the
terms of reference;
internal working document means a working record
prepared by the Royal Commission or a member or an officer of the Royal
Commission for internal purposes of the Royal Commission;
Library Act means the
Library Board of Western Australia Act 1951 ;
Library Board means The Library Board of Western
Australia constituted under the Library Act;
officer of the Royal Commission means a counsel or
other person appointed, employed or engaged to assist the Royal Commission;
prescribed exhibit means an exhibit received by
the Royal Commission in the course of a hearing relating to item 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
or 1.4 of Schedule 1 to paragraph (1) 1 of the terms of
reference;
private submission means a submission made to the
Royal Commission in respect of paragraph (1) 1 (e) or
(1) 2 (e) of the terms of reference;
record has the same meaning as it has in the
State Records Act 2000 ;
record of the Royal Commission means a
confidential record, an internal working document, a private submission, an
administrative record, a transcript record or any other record prepared or
obtained for the purposes of the Royal Commission by the Royal Commission or a
member or an officer of the Royal Commission;
regulatory body means —
(a) the
Police Force;
(b) the
Australian Federal Police;
(c) the
Australian Crime Commission;
(d) the
Police Force of another State or a Territory; or
(e) any
other regulatory, revenue collecting, or prosecuting body or authority whether
in the State or elsewhere;
Royal Commission means the Royal Commission
constituted by the persons appointed by the commission issued by the Governor
on 8 January 1991;
State archives collection has the same definition
as in the State Records Act 2000 ;
terms of reference means the terms of reference of
the Royal Commission set out in the commission issued by the Governor on
8 January 1991 and amended from time to time;
transcript record means a record of evidence taken
by the Royal Commission whether taken in private or not.
(2) A reference in
this Act to the delivery of the Royal Commission’s report shall be read
as a reference to the delivery of its final report.
[Section 4 amended by No. 67 of 1992
s. 4; No. 53 of 2000 s. 24; No. 74 of 2004 s. 71.]
[ 5-12. Deleted by No. 53 of 2000 s. 25.]