Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00182:section:52
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00182
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 52
Character Range: 365986–366694

52  General discretion to hold hearing in public or private
 (1) Subject to sections 53 and 54, 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; 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.