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#### 6 Courts, tribunals and Royal Commissions not affected
6 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.
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> > (2) Nothing in this Act affects the manner in which a Royal Commission, or any Special Commission of Inquiry, exercises the Commission’s functions.
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> > (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—
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> > > (a) in relation to a Judge of the Local Court—such of the functions of the judge as relate to the conduct of committal proceedings, and
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> > > (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](/view/html/inforce/current/act-2009-041).
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> **s 6:** Am 2001 No 121, Sch 2.172 \[1\]; 2003 No 40, Sch 2.24 \[1\]; 2009 No 41, Sch 4; 2025 No 61, Sch 2.76\[1\] \[2\].