Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

ACT CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2008 (NO. 35 OF 2008) - SECT 78

    (1)     This section applies if the general president requests a correction to an order made on an application (the original application ) to the tribunal.

    (2)     The appeal president must—

        (a)     allocate 1 or more tribunal members to a correction tribunal to consider the request for correction; and

        (b)     give notice of the request to the parties to the original application.

    (3)     The correction tribunal may—

        (a)     hear submissions from the parties as to whether the correction should be made; or

        (b)     if, the tribunal is satisfied that no party would be disadvantaged by the tribunal not hearing submissions—make a decision under subsection (4) without hearing submissions.

    (4)     The correction tribunal must—

        (a)     make the correction if, in all the circumstances of the case, the tribunal considers it appropriate to do so; or

        (b)     refuse to make the correction.

    (5)     A correction 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.