New Zealand Gazette – 1983 – No. 151

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✨ Commission of Inquiry Warrant



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(f) The necessity or expediency of any legislation in respect of any
of the matters referred to in paragraphs (a) to (e) of this
order:

(g) Such other matters arising out of the premises as may come
to your notice in the course of your inquiries and which
you consider should be investigated in connection there-
with, and upon any matters which you consider should be
brought to the attention of the Government:

But nothing in this warrant shall authorise or empower you to
inquire into any matter that occurred before the 1st day of January
1979:

And, with the like advice and consent, I hereby appoint you, the
said Walter Reid Jackson, to be the Chairman of the said
Commission:

And, for the better enabling you to carry these presents into effect,
you are hereby authorised and empowered to make and conduct
any inquiry under these presents, in accordance with the Commis-
sions of Inquiry Act 1908, at such times and places as you consider
expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and from place
to place as you think fit, and so that these presents shall continue
in force and the inquiry may at any time and place be resumed
although not regularly adjourned from time to time or from place
to place:

And, without limiting any of your other powers to hear proceed-
ings in private or to exclude any person from any of your pro-
ceedings, you are hereby empowered to exclude the public from
any hearing, including a hearing at which evidence is being taken,
if you think it proper to do so:

And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall
not at any time publish or otherwise disclose, except to me in pur-
suance of these presents or by my direction, the contents or purport
of any report so made or to be made by you, or any evidence or
information obtained by you in the exercise of the powers hereby
conferred upon you except such evidence or information as is
received in the course of a sitting open to the public:

And it is hereby declared that you have liberty to report your
proceedings and recommendations under this Commission from
time to time if you shall judge it expedient so to do:

And, using all due diligence, you are required to report to me in
writing under your hand not later than the 9th day of December
1983 your findings and opinions on the matters aforesaid, together
with such recommendations as you think fit to make in respect
thereof.

Given in Executive Council under the hand of His Excellency
the Governor-General this 16th day of September 1983.

P. G. MILLEN,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

BY AUTHORITY: P. D. HASSELBERG, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND—1983

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🏛️ Warrant for Commission of Inquiry into Broadcasting Corporation Contracts

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
16 September 1983
Commission of Inquiry, Broadcasting Corporation, Contracts, Warrant, Terms of Reference
  • Walter Reid Jackson, Appointed Chairman of the Commission

  • P. G. Millen, Clerk of the Executive Council