Western Australian Numbered Acts

ROYAL COMMISSION (POLICE) ACT 2002 (NO. 10 OF 2002)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title
           Preamble

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Interpretation  
   4.      Relationship with Royal Commissions Act 1968  

   PART 2 -- Obtaining information, documents and other things  

   5.      Power to obtain information  
   6.      Power to obtain documents etc.  
   7.      Power to enter public premises  
   8.      Legal professional privilege  

   PART 3 -- Attendance before the Commission  

   9.      Arrest of witness  
   10.     Conditional release of a witness  
   11.     Review by Supreme Court  

   PART 4 -- Secrecy, disclosure and admissibility  

   12.     Restriction on publication of evidence  
   13.     Restriction on disclosure  
   14.     Application of ACC Act  
   15.     Disclosure of information and giving of evidence by Parliamentary Commissioner  
   16.     Application of Telecommunications (Interception) Western Australia Act 1996  

   PART 5 -- Investigation of police complaints by Commission  

   17.     Interpretation  
   18.     Termination of police investigation  
   19.     Termination of Parliamentary Commissioner investigation  
   20.     This Part does not require information to be disclosed by Commission  

   PART 6 -- Assumed identities  

   21.     Interpretation  
   22.     Approval for assumed identity  
   23.     What an approval authorises  
   24.     Duties of agencies and organisations  
   25.     Identity of certain officers not to be disclosed in legal proceedings  
   26.     Protection from liability  
   27.     Report to Attorney General  

   PART 7 -- Controlled operations and integrity testing programmes  

   28.     Interpretation  
   29.     Authorisation of controlled operation  
   30.     Commissioner may authorise integrity testing programmes  
   31.     Effect of authorisation  
   32.     Protection from liability  
   33.     Evidence  
   34.     Report to Attorney General  

   PART 8 -- Surveillance Devices Act 1998 amended  

   35.     The Act amended  
   36.     Section 4B inserted  

   PART 9 -- Telecommunications (Interception) Western Australia Act 1996 amended  

   37.     The Act amended  
   38.     Section 3A inserted  

   PART 10 -- Prisons Act 1981 amended  

   39.     The Act amended  
   40.     Section 22 amended  

   PART 11 -- Miscellaneous  

   41.     Contempt  
   42.     Victimisation  
   43.     Secrecy  
   44.     Delegation  
   45.     Protection from liability  
   46.     Matter exempt from access  
   47.     Powers do not extend beyond end of Commission  
   48.     Regulations  
           
[Assented to 28 June 2002]