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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 8.20

8.20 .         Powers of Inquiry Panel

                For the purposes of an inquiry and report under this Division —

            (a)         an Inquiry Panel has the powers of a Royal Commission; and

            (b)         the person appointed to preside at meetings of the Inquiry Panel, or if the Inquiry Panel consists of one person that person, has the powers of the chairman of a Royal Commission,

                whether under the Royal Commissions Act 1968 or otherwise, and the provisions of that Act have effect as if they were enacted in this Act with such modifications as are required and in terms made applicable to the inquiry and report by the Inquiry Panel.

        [Section 8.20 inserted: No. 64 of 1998 s. 45.]



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