Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION (IMPACT OF PROPOSALS) ACT 1974 No. 164 of 1974 - SECT 19

19. (1) A Commissioner has, in the performance of his duties as a
Commissioner, the same protection and immunity as a Justice of the High Court.

(2) Subject to this Act, a person appearing before a Commission as a witness
at an inquiry has the same protection, and is, in addition to the penalties
provided by this Act, subject to the same liabilities, in any civil or
criminal proceedings as a witness in proceedings in the High Court.