Queensland Consolidated Regulations

CRIMINAL PRACTICE RULES 1999 - REG 115

115 Content of order

(1) This rule applies to a court order referring a question for inquiry and report to a commissioner under the Code , section 671B(1)(e).

(2) The order must state—

(a) the question referred; and

(b) the name of the commissioner to whom it is referred.

(3) The court may, in the order, or at any time by direction, do the following—

(a) state whether a party to the appeal or subsequent appeal to which the order relates, or the party’s lawyer, may attend all or part of the examination or investigation the subject of the order;

(b) if the appellant is in custody—

(i) give leave to the appellant to attend any stage of the examination or investigation; or

(ii) give any necessary directions to—

(A) if the appellant is in prison, the prison’s general manager; or

(B) if the appellant is in custody in a place other than prison, the person in charge of the place;

(c) state the powers the commissioner may exercise under the order;

(d) require the commissioner to make interim reports to the court on the question referred under the order;

(e) require the registrar to give copies of any report made by the commissioner to the parties or their lawyers.