South Australian Current Acts

VICTIMS OF CRIME ACT 2001 - SECT 16E

16E—Independence of Commissioner

        (1)         Subject to this section, the Commissioner is entirely independent of direction or control by the Crown or any Minister or officer of the Crown.

        (2)         The Attorney-General may, after consultation with the Commissioner, give directions and furnish guidelines to the Commissioner in relation to the carrying out of his or her functions.

        (3)         Directions or guidelines under this section—

            (a)         must, as soon as practicable after they have been given, be published in the Gazette; and

            (b)         must, within 6 sitting days after they have been given, be laid before each House of Parliament.