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ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1923 - As at 12 September 2013 - Act 29 of 1923 - NOTES

Reprint history (since 1972):

Reprint No 1   12 September 1978  
Reprint No 2   27 May 1986  
Reprint No 3   24 February 1992  
Reprint No 4   1 November 1994  
Reprint No 5   23 February 2010  

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am amended LW legislation website Sch Schedule
Cl clause No number Schs Schedules
Cll clauses p page Sec section
Div Division pp pages Secs sections
Divs Divisions Reg Regulation Subdiv Subdivision
GG Government Gazette Regs Regulations Subdivs Subdivisions
Ins inserted Rep repealed Subst substituted

Table of amending instruments

Royal Commissions Act 1923 No 29. Assented to 14.12.1923. This Act has been amended as follows:

1934 No 8 Royal Commissions (Amendment) Act 1934. Assented to 8.8.1934.
No 21 Companies (Receiver and Manager) Act 1934. Assented to 6.11.1934.
1937 No 35 Statute Law Revision Act 1937. Assented to 23.12.1937.
1965 No 33 Decimal Currency Act 1965. Assented to 20.12.1965.
Date of commencement of sec 4, 14.2.1966, secs 1 (3), 2 (1) and the Currency Act 1965 (Commonwealth), sec 2 (2).
1985 No 73 Royal Commissions (Amendment) Act 1985. Assented to 15.5.1985.
1987 No 151 Royal Commissions (Amendment) Act 1987. Assented to 5.11.1987.
Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
1990 No 58 Royal Commissions (Amendment) Act 1990. Assented to 26.9.1990.
Date of commencement, 1.10.1990, sec 2 and GG No 120 of 28.9.1990, p 8648.
1991 No 58 Royal Commissions (Amendment) Act 1991. Assented to 11.12.1991.
Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
1993 No 47 Statute Law (Penalties) Act 1993. Assented to 15.6.1993.
Date of commencement, assent, Sch 1.
No 87 Legal Profession Reform Act 1993. Assented to 29.11.1993.
Date of commencement of Sch 5, 17.12.1993, sec 2 and GG No 138 of 17.12.1993, p 7277.
1994 No 32 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994. Assented to 2.6.1994.
Date of commencement of Sch 3, assent, sec 2.
1995 No 27 Evidence (Consequential and Other Provisions) Act 1995. Assented to 19.6.1995.
Date of commencement, 1.9.1995, sec 2 and GG No 102 of 25.8.1995, p 4355.
No 99 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1995. Assented to 21.12.1995.
Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 2 relating to the Royal Commissions Act 1923, assent, sec 2 (2).
2003 No 13 Australian Crime Commission (New South Wales) Act 2003. Assented to 30.6.2003.
Date of commencement of Sch 1.30, assent, sec 2 (1).
2006 No 120 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2006. Assented to 4.12.2006.
Date of commencement of Sch 1, assent, sec 2 (2).
2013 No 11 Royal Commissions Amendment Act 2013. Assented to 25.3.2013.
Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
No 65 Royal Commissions and Ombudsman Legislation Amendment Act 2013. Assented to 12.9.2013.
Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
This Act has also been amended pursuant to an order under the Reprints Act 1972 No 48 (formerly Acts Reprinting Act 1972). Order dated 31.8.1978 and published in GG No 109 of 8.9.1978, p 3828, declaring that the Royal Commissions Act 1923 is an enactment to which sec 8 (2) and sec 9 (3) of the Acts Reprinting Act 1972 apply.

Table of amendments

No reference is made to certain amendments made by the Decimal Currency Act 1965 and the Reprints Act 1972.

Secs 2, 3 Rep 1987 No 151, Sch 1 (1).
Sec 4 Am 1985 No 73, Sch 1 (1); 1987 No 151, Sch 1 (2); 2013 No 11, Sch 1 [1].
Sec 5 Am 1987 No 151, Sch 1 (3); 2013 No 11, Sch 1 [2].
Sec 5A Ins 2013 No 11, Sch 1 [3].
Secs 6, 7 Am 1994 No 32, Sch 3.
Sec 8 Am 1985 No 73, Sch 1 (2); 1994 No 32, Sch 3.
Secs 9, 10 Am 1994 No 32, Sch 3.
Sec 11 Am 1985 No 73, Sch 1 (3); 1994 No 32, Sch 3; 1995 No 27, Sch 1; 2013 No 11, Sch 1 [4].
Sec 12 Am 1934 No 8, sec 2 (a); 1985 No 73, Sch 1 (4); 1991 No 58, Sch 1 (1).
Sec 12A Ins 1991 No 58, Sch 1 (2). Am 2003 No 13, Sch 1.30.
Sec 12B Ins 2013 No 65, Sch 1 [1].
Sec 13 Am 1994 No 32, Sch 3.
Sec 14A Ins 1934 No 21, sec 13. Am 1937 No 35, Second Sch. Rep 1995 No 99, Sch 2.
Sec 14B Ins 1990 No 58, Sch 1 (1).
Part 2, Div 2, heading Subst 1987 No 151, Sch 1 (4); 1990 No 58, Sch 1 (2).
Sec 15 Am 1987 No 151, Sch 1 (5); 1990 No 58, Sch 1 (3); 1993 No 87, Sch 5. Subst 2013 No 11, Sch 1 [5].
Sec 16 Am 1994 No 32, Sch 3.
Sec 17 Am 1985 No 73, Sch 1 (5); 1987 No 151, Sch 1 (6); 1990 No 58, Sch 1 (4); 1994 No 32, Sch 3; 2013 No 65, Sch 1 [2] [3].
Sec 18 Am 1985 No 73, Sch 1 (6); 1990 No 58, Sch 1 (5).
Secs 18A-18D Ins 1990 No 58, Sch 1 (6).
Sec 19 Am 1985 No 73, Sch 1 (7); 1993 No 47, Sch 1; 1994 No 32, Sch 3.
Sec 20 Am 1993 No 47, Sch 1; 1994 No 32, Sch 3.
Sec 21 Subst 2006 No 120, Sch 1.26.
Sec 23 Am 1985 No 73, Sch 1 (8).
Sec 23A Ins 1934 No 8, sec 2 (b). Am 1985 No 73, Sch 1 (9); 1994 No 32, Sch 3.
Sec 23B Ins 2013 No 65, Sch 1 [4].
Sch Rep 1987 No 151, Sch 1 (7).
Sch 1 Ins 2013 No 11, Sch 1 [6]. Am 2013 No 65, Sch 1 [5].
The whole Act Am 1994 No 32, Sch 3 ("chairman" omitted wherever occurring, "chairperson" inserted instead).


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