Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:153
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 153
Character Range: 1683628–1684849

153  Information may be made available to parties
 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), where, after the relevant documents relating to a review have been forwarded to the Principal Member of the Board in accordance with subsection 137(4) and before the commencement of the hearing of the review, a party to the review furnishes any information to the Board for the purposes of the review, the Board shall make that information available to the other party to the review.
 (2) Where the Board is of the opinion:
 (a) that any information under the control of the Board is of a confidential nature; or
 (b) that it might be prejudicial to the physical or mental health or well‑being of the applicant to communicate any such information to the applicant;
the Board may refrain from making it available to the applicant, but may make it available to a person representing the applicant.
 (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to information furnished, as set out in that subsection, by a party to a review other than the Commission unless the Board is of the opinion that it contains, or foreshadows the presentation of, evidence or a submission that has not been considered by the Commission in connection with the review.