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(d) to request a relevant Commissioner not to undertake inquiry, or further inquiry, into any particular death;

           being a death to which these Our Letters Patent relate:

           AND We direct you to consult generally with each relevant Commissioner with regard to the methods and procedures to be followed in relation to your and their inquiries in order to establish a uniform approach to those inquiries and authorise you, following such consultation, to issue guidelines or make recommendations, or both, to each of these Commissioners in relation to those methods and procedures:

           AND We further direct you to have regard to the reports and recommendations (if any) of each relevant Commissioner, and to consult with each of those Commissioners, in relation to the preparation of your report or reports and your recommendations:

           AND We further declare that in these Our Letters Patent, the expression "relevant Commissioner" means a person other than yourself to whom a Commission of inquiry relating to the deaths of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders has been or is issued by Our Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, or a person administering the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, by Our Letters Patent:

           AND We require you as expeditiously as practicable to make your inquiry and, not later than 31 December 1989 or such later date as We may be pleased to fix, to furnish to Our Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia:

             (e) a report or reports of the findings of your inquiry; and

             (f) the reports and any recommendations of relevant Commissioners that have been forwarded to you;

           and to make such recommendations as you consider appropriate."

                     WITNESS His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Ninian Martin Stephen, a member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the Order of Australia, Knight Grand Cross of The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of The Royal Victorian Order, Knight Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.

      Dated this 6 day of May 1988

Governor-General
By His Excellency's Command,

      Prime Minister