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Australian Crime Commission Establishment Act 2002
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#### 59B Liability for damages
A member of the Board is not liable to an action or other proceeding for damages for or in relation to an act done or omitted in good faith in performance or purported performance of any function, or in exercise or purported exercise of any power, conferred or expressed to be conferred by or under this Act.
288 Subsection 60(1)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(1) The Board may hold meetings in public for the purpose of informing the public about, or receiving submissions in relation to, the performance of the ACC’s functions.
Note: The heading to section 60 is altered by omitting “sittings” and substituting “meetings”.
289 Subsections 60(2) to (3D)
Repeal the subsections.
290 Subsection 60(4)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(4) The Board may publish bulletins for the purpose of informing the public about the performance of the ACC’s functions.
291 Subsection 60(5)
Omit “Authority”, substitute “Board”.
292 Paragraph 60(5)(a)
Omit “sitting”, substitute “meeting”.
293 Subsection 61(1)
Omit “Authority”, substitute “Chair of the Board”.
294 Subsection 61(1)
Omit “its operations”, substitute “the ACC’s operations”.
295 Subsection 61(2)
Omit “report by the Authority”, substitute “report by the Chair of the Board”.
296 Paragraph 61(2)(a)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(a) a description of any investigation into matters relating to federally relevant criminal activity that the ACC conducted during the year and that the Board determined to be a special investigation;
297 Paragraph 61(2)(b)
Omit “Authority during that year in the course of its investigations”, substitute “ACC during that year in the performance of its functions”.
298 Paragraph 61(2)(c)
Omit “its functions, the Authority”, substitute “the ACC’s functions, the Board”.
299 Paragraph 61(2)(d)
Omit “Chair”, substitute “CEO”.
300 Paragraph 61(2)(e)
Omit “its investigations”, substitute “investigations by the ACC”.
301 Paragraph 61(2)(f)
Repeal the paragraph.
302 Subparagraph 61(2)(g)(iii)
Omit “Authority”, substitute “ACC”.
303 Subsection 61(3)
Omit “Authority”, substitute “Chair of the Board”.
304 Subsection 61(4)
Omit “Authority” (wherever occurring), substitute “Chair of the Board”.
305 Subsection 61(5)
Repeal the subsection.
306 Paragraph 61(6)(a)
Omit “of the Authority”, substitute “by the Chair of the Board”.
307 Paragraph 61(6)(a)
After “her”, insert “from the Inter‑Governmental Committee”.
307A After section 61
Insert: