Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Amendment) Act 2005

Amendment of section 13 (report of Investigation Committee) of Principal Act.

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8.—Section 13 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (2), by substituting the following paragraphs for paragraphs (a) and (b):

“(a) may contain findings that abuse of children, or abuse of children during a particular period, occurred in a particular institution and may identify—

(i) the institution where the abuse took place, and

(ii) the person or, as the case may be, each person who committed the abuse but only if he or she has been convicted of an offence in respect of abuse,

(b) may contain findings in relation to the management, administration, operation, supervision and regulation, direct or indirect, of an institution referred to in paragraph (a), and”,

and

(b) in subsection (4)(b), by inserting, after “interim report”, “(which may specify the determinations standing made, at the date of the preparation of the interim report concerned, by the Committee pursuant to section 12)”.