Queensland Consolidated Acts

COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY ACT 1950 - SECT 20

20 Protection for participants in commissions

(1) Every commissioner shall, in the exercise of duty as commissioner and every deputy to a commission shall, whilst exercising the authority of a deputy to the commission, have the same protection and immunity as a judge of the Supreme Court.

(2) Without limiting the protection and immunity given a commissioner by subsection (1) , a commissioner, deputy to a commission or any lawyer or other person appointed, engaged or seconded to assist a commission shall not incur any liability on account of any act or thing that the person does or purports in good faith to do—

(a) in pursuance of the commission of inquiry issued by the Governor in Council; or

(b) in or in relation to the inquiry or in respect of any matter arising in or out of the inquiry; or

(c) in or in relation to any report or recommendation made by or to the commission; or

(d) in or in connection with the efficient conduct of the commission’s inquiry.