NATIONAL CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION ACT 2009 - SECT 209 ASIC's power to intervene in proceedings

NATIONAL CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION ACT 2009 - SECT 209

  (1)   ASIC may intervene in any proceedings relating to a matter arising under this Act.

  (2)   If ASIC intervenes in proceedings referred to in subsection   (1), ASIC is taken to be a party to the proceedings and, subject to this Act, has all the rights, duties and liabilities of such a party.

  (3)   Without limiting subsection   (2), ASIC may appear and be represented in any proceedings in which it wishes to intervene pursuant to subsection   (1):

  (a)   by an ASIC staff member; or

  (b)   by a natural person to whom, or by an officer or employee of a person or body to whom or to which, ASIC has delegated its functions and powers under this Act or such of those functions and powers as relate to a matter to which the proceedings relate; or

  (c)   by a lawyer.