13Courts, tribunals and Royal Commissions not affected

13 Courts, tribunals and Royal Commissions not affected

13 Courts, tribunals and Royal Commissions not affected

(1) Nothing in this Act affects the manner in which a court or tribunal, or the manner in which the holder of an office relating to a court or tribunal, exercises the court’s, or the tribunal’s, judicial functions.

(2) Nothing in this Act affects the manner in which a Royal Commission, or any Special Commission of Inquiry, exercises the Commission’s functions.

(3) In this section, judicial functions of a court or tribunal means such of the functions of the court or tribunal as relate to the hearing or determination of proceedings before it, and includes—

(a) in relation to a justice—such of the functions of the justice as relate to the conduct of committal proceedings, and

(b) in relation to a coroner—such of the functions of the coroner as relate to the conduct of inquests and inquiries under the Coroners Act 2009.

s 13: Am 2009 No 41, Sch 4.