HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 106 Conduct of hearings

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 106

  (1)   Subject to this Subdivision and the regulations, the procedure for conducting the hearing is within the discretion of the Committee member presiding at the meeting in question.

  (2)   The Committee is not bound by the rules of evidence but may inform itself on any matter in any way it thinks appropriate.

  (3)   If a document is produced at a hearing:

  (a)   a Committee member may inspect the document; and

  (b)   the Committee member presiding at the hearing may retain the document in his or her possession for such reasonable period as he or she thinks fit; and

  (c)   a Committee member may make copies of, or take extracts from, that document.

  (4)   The Committee member presiding at a hearing may adjourn the hearing from time to time as he or she thinks fit.