Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00218:clause:1_159
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00218
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 159
Character Range: 18560–20011

159  Proceedings at hearings
 (1) A hearing of a Financial Services and Credit Panel must be conducted with as little formality and technicality, and with as much expedition, as a proper consideration of the matters before the panel permits.
 (2) At a hearing of a Financial Services and Credit Panel, the panel:
 (a) is not bound by the rules of evidence; and
 (b) may, on such conditions as it thinks fit, permit a person to intervene; and
 (c) must observe the rules of natural justice.
 (3) The Chair of a Financial Services and Credit Panel may decide to hold all or part of a hearing of the panel:
 (a) at a particular place; or
 (b) using any technology that allows an individual to participate in the hearing, or that part of the hearing, without being physically present at the hearing or that part of the hearing.
 (4) If the Chair of a Financial Services and Credit Panel decides to hold all or part of a hearing using technology of a kind mentioned in paragraph (3)(b):
 (a) each participant in the hearing (including each member of the panel) may use that technology to participate in the hearing or that part of the hearing; and
 (b) the hearing or that part of the hearing may be held at 2 or more places at the same time.
 (5) Subdivision A of Division 3 (decisions of panels at meetings) applies, so far as practicable, in relation to a hearing of a Financial Services and Credit Panel as if the hearing were a meeting of the panel.