You have the power to investigate, but you also have the power to cease investigations if it appears, due to elapsed time, that it would serve no useful purpose.
Could you give some examples? If there has been an offence, an omission, a wrongdoing, I do not understand why the offence would be wiped out by the lapse of time.
I also note that in the case involving Democracy Watch, where you were asked to consider rule 8, the Federal Court of Appeal refused to refer the complaint because too much time had elapsed. So in two cases where there was a basis for the case, a ruling was refused because of the elapsed time.
Could you explain what the justification for that provision is?