Charitable Trusts Act 2022

An investigator has all the powers, rights and privileges that are specified in the Royal Commissions Act 1968 as they relate to a Royal Commission and the Chairman of the Royal Commission.

For the purposes of subsection (1), the provisions of the Royal Commissions Act 1968 have effect as if they were enacted in this Act and in terms made applicable to the investigator and that matter as if the matter were one into which a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire under that Act.

This section applies despite any obligation imposed by an enactment or rule of law to maintain secrecy or impose any other restriction in relation to information obtained by, or furnished to, an investigator.

A provider is not entitled to any privilege in respect of the production of documents or the giving of evidence as is allowed by law in legal proceedings.

Subject to subsections (3) and (4), a person is not compelled for the purposes of an investigation to give any evidence or produce any document that the person could not be compelled to give or produce in proceedings before a court.