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12 PART V MISCELLANEOUS Repeal

17. The Commissions of Inquiry Act (Cap. 48) is repealed.

Savings and transitional provisions

18. In respect of any commission of inquiry appointed under section 2 of the repealed Commissions of Inquiry Act (referred to in this section as the repealed Act) before the date of commencement of this Act, the repealed Act shall continue to apply to such commission of inquiry and all matters arising therefrom as if the repealed Act had not been repealed.

Related amendments to other written laws

19. The provisions of the Acts specified in the first column of the Second Schedule are amended in the manner set out in the second column thereof. FIRST SCHEDULE Section 14 INQUIRY POWERS AND PROCEEDINGS Powers of inquiry body

1.—(1) An inquiry body shall not rule on and has no power to determine the civil or criminal liability of any person, but an inquiry body is not to be inhibited in the discharge of its functions by any likelihood of liability being inferred from facts that it determines or recommendations that it makes.

(2) For the purposes of conducting an inquiry under this Act, the inquiry body shall have powers to—
 * (a) procure and receive all such evidence, written or oral, as the inquiry body may think it necessary or desirable to procure;
 * (b) examine all such persons as witnesses as the inquiry body may think it necessary or desirable to examine, and determine the order in which those witnesses shall be examined;
 * (c) require the evidence (whether written or oral) of any witness to be made on oath or affirmation (such oath or affirmation to be that which could be