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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 in the course of your inquiry 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 those Commissioners in relation to those methods and procedures:

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

      AND We further declare that, for the purpose of conducting your inquiry, you are authorised to have regard to:

          (e) any evidence received by, and any matters submitted to, you under the Commission of inquiry issued to you on 6 May 1988 by Our Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia by Letters Patent (as subsequently varied); and

          (f) any evidence received by, and any matters submitted to, the Honourable James Henry Muirhead under the Commission of inquiry issued to him on 16 October 1987 by Our Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Letters Patent (as subsequently varied);

      as if that evidence had been received by you, or those matters had been submitted to you, as the case may be, for the purposes of your inquiry and any report or reports under these Our Letters Patent:

      AND We further declare that in these Our Letters Patent, the expression "relevant Commissioner" means a person other than yourself to who 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, not being a person in relation to whom such a Commission of inquiry has been or is revoked:

      AND We require you as expeditiously as practicable to make your inquiry and, not later than 31 December 1990 or such later day as We may be pleased to fix, to furnish to Our Governor-General for the Commonwealth of Australia:

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

          (h) 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 Honourable William George Hayden, Companion of the Order