Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00345:section:205
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00345
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 205
Character Range: 338182–338892

205  Procedure at hearing
 (1) The Federal Court must allow to appear at an inquiry all persons who apply to the Court for leave to appear and who appear to the Court to have an interest in the inquiry, and the Court may order any other person to appear.
 (2) The persons appearing, or ordered under subsection (1) to appear, at an inquiry are taken to be parties to the proceeding.
 (3) For the purposes of this Part:
 (a) the procedure of the Court is, subject to this Act and the Rules of Court, within the discretion of the Court; and
 (b) the Court is not bound to act in a formal manner and is not bound by any rules of evidence, but may inform itself on any matter in such manner as it considers just.