Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

NATIONAL CRIME AUTHORITY (TERRITORY PROVISIONS) ACT 1991 (REPEALED) - SECT 16

    (1)     A member may summon a person to appear before the authority at a hearing to give evidence and to produce such documents or other things (if any) as are referred to in the summons.

    (2)     A summons under subsection (1) shall be accompanied by a copy of the notice, or of each of the notices, by which the matter to which the hearing relates was referred to the authority.

    (3)     A summons under subsection (1) requiring a person to appear before the authority at a hearing shall, unless the member issuing the summons is satisfied that, in the particular circumstances of the special investigation to which the hearing relates, it would prejudice the effectiveness of the special investigation for the summons to do so, set out, so far as is practicable, the general nature of the matters in relation to which the authority intends to question the person, but nothing in this subsection prevents the authority from questioning the person in relation to a matter that relates to a special investigation.

    (4)     The member presiding at a hearing before the authority may require a person appearing at the hearing to produce a document or other thing.

    (5)     The authority may, at a hearing, take evidence on oath or affirmation and for that purpose—

        (a)     a member may require a person appearing at the hearing to give evidence either to take an oath or to make an affirmation in a form approved by the member presiding at the hearing; and

        (b)     a member or a person who is an authorised person in relation to the authority, may administer an oath or affirmation to a person so appearing at the hearing.

    (6)     In this section, a reference to a person who is an authorised person in relation to the authority is a reference to a person authorised in writing, or a person included in a class of persons authorised in writing, for this section by the chairperson.

    (7)     The powers given by this section are not exercisable except for the purposes of a special investigation.