New Zealand Legislation: Acts

10 Registrar to be a Commission of Inquiry for certain purposes

• (1) For the purposes of hearing and determining any matter under any of sections 25, 26, 27, 32A, 33, 39, 40, 44, 56, 57, and 59 of this Act, the Registrar shall have the same powers as are conferred on a Commission of Inquiry by sections 4, 10, and 11 of the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908 in respect of an inquiry under that Act, and, subject to the other provisions of this Act, those sections of that Act and sections 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, and 14 of that Act shall apply accordingly.

  (2) At the hearing of any matter under any of sections 25, 32A, 33, 39, and 44 of this Act, the Registrar may receive as evidence any statement, document, information, or matter that in his opinion may assist him to deal with the matter, whether or not it would be otherwise admissible in a Court of law.

  Subsection (1) was amended, as from 18 October 1978, by section 10(2) Private Investigators and Security Guards Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 83) by inserting the expression “, 32A”.

  Subsection (2) was amended, as from 18 October 1978, by section 10(3) Private Investigators and Security Guards Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 83) by inserting the expression “, 32A”.