Prime Minister may issue Commissions of Inquiry

(1) Whenever it may seem desirable to the Prime Minister, he may issue a Commission, appointing one or more Commissioners, and authorising such Commissioners, or any quorum of them therein mentioned, to inquire into, (a) the or management of any department of the public service; (b) the conduct or management of any public or local institution; (c) the conduct of any public officer of Belize; or (d) any other matter in which an inquiry would, in the opinion of the Prime Minister, be for the public welfare. (2) Every such Commission shall specify the subject of inquiry, and may, in the discretion of the Prime Minister, direct which Commissioner shall be chairman, and where and when such inquiry shall be made, and the report thereof rendered. (3) The Commission may also prescribe how it shall be executed, and may direct whether the inquiry shall or shall not 5 be held in public and, in the absence of a direction to the contrary, the inquiry 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 inquiry or for any other reason.