Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NAURU (HIGH COURT APPEALS) ACT 1976 - SECT 9

                   Where the Justices sitting as a Full Court in accordance with section 7 are divided in opinion as to the decision to be given on any question, the question shall be decided as follows:

                     (a)  if there is a majority of the one opinion, the question shall be decided in accordance with the opinion of the majority; or

                     (b)  in any other case:

                              (i)  in the case of an application for leave to appeal--the application shall be refused; or

                             (ii)  in the case of an appeal--the decision appealed from shall be affirmed.