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DEFENCE ACT 1903 - SECT 58KA Single member may conduct Tribunal's business

DEFENCE ACT 1903 - SECT 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.