Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

ACT CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2008 (NO. 35 OF 2008) - SECT 77

    (1)     This section applies if a tribunal (the requesting tribunal ) is dealing with an application.

    (2)     The requesting tribunal may, on its own initiative or on application by a party, ask the appeal president to allocate 1 or more tribunal members to a tribunal (the ruling tribunal ) to give a ruling on a question of law.

    (3)     If the ruling tribunal gives a ruling on a question of law, the requesting tribunal is bound by the ruling.

Note     Question of law includes whether a question is a question of law (see dict).

    (4)     A ruling tribunal is made up of 1 or more of the following tribunal members allocated by the appeal president:

        (a)     a presidential member;

        (b)     a senior member who is a lawyer and has been a lawyer for 5 years or more.

    (5)     However, a ruling tribunal must not contain a tribunal member allocated to the requesting tribunal.