41EReports on public hearings

41E Reports on public hearings

41E Reports on public hearings

(1) The Minister may, in the instrument of appointment of a public inquirer, require the public inquirer to prepare and provide to the Minister one or more reports on a public inquiry (including reports before the public inquiry is concluded) on specified matters within a specified time.

(2) The public inquirer must prepare any report required by the Minister.

(3) The Minister may cause a copy of a report provided to the Minister to be published in any way that the Minister considers appropriate, including by publishing it on a website or tabling it in one or both Houses of Parliament.

(4) A copy of a report to be tabled in a House of Parliament may be presented to the Clerk of the House if the House is not sitting when it is sought to be tabled.

(5) A copy of a report presented under subsection (4)—

(a) is, on presentation and for all purposes, taken to have been laid before the House, and

(b) may be printed by authority of the Clerk of the House, and

(c) if so printed, is taken to be a document published by or under the authority of the House, and

(d) is to be recorded—

(i) in the case of the Legislative Council—in the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council, and

(ii) in the case of the Legislative Assembly—in the Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly,

on the first sitting day of the House after receipt of the copy of the report by the Clerk.

ss 41D–41F: Ins 2017 No 36, Sch 1 [7].