Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to this section, the Royal Commissions Act 1902 , other than sections 4 and 5, applies in relation to a Commission of inquiry, and to the Commissioner conducting it, as if:
(a) the Commission of inquiry were a Royal Commission; and
(b) the Commissioner were a member of a Royal Commission; and
(c) that Act bound the Crown in each of its capacities.
(2) This section does not make the Crown liable to be prosecuted for an offence.
(3) The regulations may, for the purposes of the application of section 9 of the Royal Commissions Act 1902 in accordance with subsection (1) of this section, provide for or specify matters of the kind referred to in subsection 9(2) of that Act.
(4) Section 9 of the Royal Commissions Act 1902 , in its application in accordance with subsection (1) of this section, has effect as if those regulations were regulations made for the purposes of subsection 9(2) of that Act.
(5) Sections 10 and 15 of the Royal Commissions Act 1902
, in their application in accordance with subsection (1) of this
section, have effect as if references in those sections to offences against
that Act included references to such offences as apply in accordance with
subsection (1) of this section.