Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00176:section:58ka
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00176
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 58KA
Character Range: 155678–156924

58KA  Single member may conduct Tribunal's business
 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the President may:
 (a) if a person referred to in subsection 58K(9) requests the President to do so and the President considers it appropriate; or
 (b) in any case, on the President's initiative;
direct, in writing, that a member of the Tribunal specified in the direction is to conduct the Tribunal's business in relation to any matter that is specified in the direction, being a matter that is being, or is to be, dealt with by the Tribunal.
 (2) The President must not, in a direction made under subsection (1), direct that a single member is to deal with a request made under subsection 58KC(1).
 (3) The President may, at any time, in writing, terminate a direction made under subsection (1).
 (4) Where a single member is conducting the Tribunal's business in relation to a matter:
 (a) the single member may exercise any powers or perform any functions of the Tribunal in relation to that matter; and
 (b) any act of the single member in relation to that matter is taken to be an act of the Tribunal.
 (5) In this section, a reference to a matter that is being, or is to be, dealt with by the Tribunal includes a reference to any part of such a matter.