Commonwealth Numbered Acts

INDUSTRY COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 9 of 1990 - SECT 16

16. (1) The Commission must hold hearings for the purposes of an inquiry.

(2) The Commission may hold public seminars, conduct workshops and establish
working groups and task forces for the purposes of an inquiry.

(3) Before the Commission begins to hold hearings for the purposes of an
inquiry, it must give reasonable notice in each State and internal Territory,
by advertisement published in a newspaper circulating in the State or
Territory, of its intention to hold the hearings, the subject of the hearings
and the time and place at which the first of the hearings is to be begun.

(4) Sections 40 and 41 apply to a hearing, so far as those sections are
capable of so applying, as if the hearing were a meeting of the Commission.