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Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006

No longer in force

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Attorney-General's Department

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C2021C00446 C26

04 September 2021 - 30 June 2023

Table of contents

Part 1—Preliminary
Part 2—Interpretation
Part 3—The Integrity Commissioner
Part 4—Dealing with corruption issues
- Division 1—Referring corruption issues to Integrity Commissioner
- Division 2—How Integrity Commissioner deals with corruption issues
Part 5—Information sharing when decision made on how to deal with corruption issue
- Division 1—Giving information to head of agency conducting investigation
  - 43 Division applies if agency to conduct, or continue conducting, investigation of corruption issue
  - 44 Integrity Commissioner to give information or documents to agency head
- Division 2—Information to be given by law enforcement agency that has already commenced investigation
  - 45 Division applies if law enforcement agency has already commenced investigating corruption issue
  - 46 Integrity Commissioner may direct agency head to give information or documents that relate to corruption issue
Part 6—Investigations by Integrity Commissioner
- Division 1—Investigation
- Division 2—Reporting
  - Subdivision A—Reporting during investigation
    - 52 Integrity Commissioner to keep person who referred corruption issue informed of progress of investigation
    - 53 Integrity Commissioner to keep home agency and integrity agency informed of progress of investigation
  - Subdivision B—Reporting at the end of investigation
Part 7—Investigations by other Commonwealth agencies
Part 8—Public inquiries by Integrity Commissioner
- Division 1—Conducting a public inquiry
  - 71 Minister may request Integrity Commissioner to conduct public inquiry
  - 72 Publicising inquiry
- Division 2—Reporting
  - 73 Report on public inquiry
  - 74 Giving report to Minister
Part 9—Integrity Commissioner’s powers in conducting investigations and public inquiries
Part 10—Dealing with evidence and information obtained in investigation or public inquiry
Part 11—Attorney-General’s certificates about release of information
Part 12—Dealing with ACLEI corruption issues
Part 13—Administrative provisions
Part 14—Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity
Part 15—Miscellaneous
Endnotes