Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2011C00171:clause:1_153w
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2011C00171
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 153W
Character Range: 174663–176023

153W  Review of collecting society's distribution arrangement

 (1) This section has effect if an application is made to the Tribunal under section 135ZZZS for review of an arrangement adopted, or proposed to be adopted, by a collecting society for distributing amounts it collects in a period.

 (2) The parties to the application are:
 (a) the applicant; and
 (b) the collecting society (if it is not the applicant); and
 (c) a member of the collecting society, or an organisation claiming to be representative of members of the collecting society, that the Tribunal makes a party to the application.

 (3) The Tribunal may make a member of the collecting society, or an organisation claiming to be representative of members of the collecting society, a party to the application if:
 (a) the member or organisation asks to be made a party; and
 (b) the Tribunal is satisfied that the member or organisation has a substantial interest in the arrangement.

 (4) The Tribunal must consider the application, give the parties an opportunity to present their cases then make an order:
 (a) confirming the arrangement; or
 (b) varying the arrangement; or
 (c) substituting for the arrangement another arrangement for distributing amounts the collecting society collects in the period.

 (5) In this section:

collecting society has the same meaning as in Part VD.