Commissions of Inquiry Act 1995

If a Commission considers that a person has or may have done an act so as to be guilty of contempt of the Commission, it may, by notice served on that person, call on that person to show cause why the Commission should not certify the contempt to the Supreme Court.

A person on whom a notice to show cause is served may do all or any of the following in support of the person's case:make oral or written submissions to the Commission; give evidence to the Commission, including the giving of oral evidence under examination by the person's counsel; call witnesses.

For the purposes of subsection (2), the person called on to show cause may be represented by counsel as of right.