Section 2Part 0 —
Power to issue Commissions of Enquiry
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The Governor may, whenever he deems it advisable, issue a Commission, appointing one or more Commissioners, and authorising such Commissioners, or any quorum of them therein mentioned, to enquire into the conduct or management of any department of the public service, any public or local institution or the conduct of any public or local officers of the Islands or of any Island or district thereof, or into any matter in which any enquiry would, in the opinion of the Governor, be for the public welfare.
Each such Commission shall specify the subject of enquiry, and may, in the discretion of the Governor, if there is more than one Commissioner, direct which Commissioner shall be Chairman, and direct where and when such enquiry shall be made, and the report thereof rendered, and prescribe how such Commission shall be executed, and may direct whether the enquiry shall or shall not be held in public. In the absence of a direction to the contrary, the enquiry shall be held in public, but the Commissioners shall nevertheless be entitled to exclude any particular person or persons for the preservation of order, for the due conduct of the enquiry or for any other reason.