Commissions of Investigation Act 2004

Draft reports to be sent to certain persons.

34.—(1) Before submitting the final or an interim report to the specified Minister, a commission shall send a draft of the report, or the relevant part of the draft report, to any person who is identified in or identifiable from the draft report.

(2) The draft report must be accompanied by a notice from the commission specifying the time allowed for making—

(a) submissions or requests to the commission under section 35 (1)(a) or 36(1), and

(b) applications to the Court under section 35 (1)(b).

(3) For the purposes of this section and section 35 , a person is identifiable from a draft report if the report contains information that could reasonably be expected to lead to the person's identification.