Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00826:section:278
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00826
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 278
Character Range: 616531–617300

278  General discretion to hold hearing in public or private
 (1) Subject to sections 279 and 280, ASIC may direct that a hearing take place in public or take place in private.
 (2) In exercising its discretion under subsection (1), ASIC must have regard to:
 (a) whether evidence that may be given, or a matter that may arise, during the hearing is of a confidential nature or relates to the commission, or to the alleged or suspected commission, of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; and
 (b) any unfair prejudice to a person's reputation that would be likely to be caused if the hearing took place in public; and
 (c) whether it is in the public interest that the hearing take place in public; and
 (d) any other relevant matter.