Queensland Consolidated Acts

COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY ACT 1950 - SECT 19B

19B Commission’s custody of books etc.

(1) The chairperson may cause any book, document, writing or record or property or thing of whatever description produced to a commission, whether or not it is tendered in evidence, to be kept in such custody as the chairperson directs (the chairperson, taking reasonable care for its preservation)—

(a) until the commission has completed its inquiry and report and thereafter for a time reasonable for the purpose of establishing whether paragraph (b) is or is likely to be relevant to the case; and

(b) if a person is committed for trial for an offence committed with respect to such book, document, writing, record, property or thing or an offence committed in such circumstances that the book, document, writing, record, property or thing would be likely to afford evidence at the trial—until it is produced in evidence at the trial.

(2) If no person is committed for trial for an offence referred to in subsection (1) (b) the book, document, writing, record, property or thing kept in custody pursuant to a chairperson’s direction shall be returned to the person from whom it was seized or taken unless the chairperson acting under authority conferred on the chairperson by law directs that it be disposed of otherwise.