Queensland Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CRIME COMMISSION (QUEENSLAND) ACT 2003 - SECT 19

19 Power to summon witnesses and take evidence

(1) An examiner may summon a person to appear before the examiner at an examination to give evidence and to produce the documents or other things, if any, referred to in the summons.

(2) Before issuing a summons under subsection (1) , the examiner must be satisfied that it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.

(3) The examiner must also record in writing the reasons for the issue of the summons.

(4) A summons under subsection (1) requiring a person to appear before an examiner at an examination must be accompanied by a copy of the determination of the Board that the State ACC intelligence operation is a special operation or that the State ACC investigation is a special investigation.

(5) A summons under subsection (1) requiring a person to appear before an examiner at an examination must, unless the examiner issuing the summons is satisfied that, in the particular circumstances of the special ACC operation/investigation to which the examination relates, it would prejudice the effectiveness of the special ACC operation/investigation for the summons to do so, set out, so far as is reasonably practicable, the general nature of the matters in relation to which the examiner intends to question the person.

(6) Nothing in subsection (5) prevents the examiner from questioning the person in relation to any matter that relates to a special ACC operation/investigation.

(7) The examiner who is holding an examination may require a person appearing at the examination to produce a document or other thing.

(8) An examiner may, at an examination, take evidence on oath or affirmation and for that purpose—

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

(b) the examiner, or a person who is an authorised person in relation to the ACC, may administer an oath or affirmation to a person so appearing at the examination.

(9) In this section, a reference to a person who is an authorised person in relation to the ACC is a reference to a person authorised in writing, or a person included in a class of persons authorised in writing, for the purposes of this section by the CEO.

(10) The powers conferred by this section are not exercisable except for the purposes of a special ACC operation/investigation.