Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:148:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 148 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 1676633–1679371

the review to provide a statement of matters or contentions upon which reliance is intended to be placed at the hearing of the review.
 (5) The Principal Member:
 (a) may give general directions, not inconsistent with subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) or directions under subsection 142(2), as to the procedure of the Board with respect to reviews before it, including reviews the hearings of which have not been commenced; and
 (b) may give directions, not inconsistent with subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) or directions under subsection 142(2), as to the procedure of the Board with respect to a particular review before the Board, either before or after the hearing of the review has commenced.
 (5A) The power of the Principal Member under subsection (5) includes the power to give directions:
 (a) as to the manner of communication of documents, including electronic documents, that are required or permitted to be communicated to the Board; and
 (b) as to the time at which such documents are to be taken to have been so communicated.
 (5B) Without limiting the documents to which subsection (5A) applies, those documents include:
 (a) documents, comments and supplementary reports forwarded to the Principal Member under subsection 137(4); and
 (b) notices given to the Principal Member by a party to a review of a decision for the purposes of section 148; and
 (c) documents produced to the Board under section 151 for the purposes of the hearing of a review Board; and
 (d) further documents and reports of investigations or examinations forwarded to the Board as a consequence of a request made under subsection 152(1); and
 (e) documents withdrawing or discontinuing applications for review communicated to the Board under subsection 155(2).
 (6) The presiding member in respect of a particular review may, in respect of a matter not dealt with by directions under subsection (5), give directions, not inconsistent with subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) or directions under subsection 142(2), as to the procedure to be followed on a hearing of the review, either before or after the hearing of the review has commenced.
 (6A) The Principal Member may, in relation to a review, request the Secretary:
 (a) to give to the Principal Member further documents in the Secretary's custody; or
 (b) to obtain, and give to the Principal Member, further documents; or
 (c) to arrange for the making of any investigation or medical examination and to give to the Principal Member a report of the investigation or examination.
 (7) In giving a direction or making a request under this section, the Principal Member or a presiding member must have regard to the objective in section 133A.
 (8) A member holding a directions hearing or the