NATIONAL CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION ACT 2009 - SECT 278 General discretion to hold hearing in public or private

NATIONAL CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION ACT 2009 - SECT 278

  (1)   Subject to sections   279 and 280, ASIC may direct that a hearing take place in public or take place in private.

  (2)   In exercising its discretion under subsection   (1), ASIC must have regard to:

  (a)   whether evidence that may be given, or a matter that may arise, during the hearing is of a confidential nature or relates to the commission, or to the alleged or suspected commission, of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; and

  (b)   any unfair prejudice to a person's reputation that would be likely to be caused if the hearing took place in public; and

  (c)   whether it is in the public interest that the hearing take place in public; and

  (d)   any other relevant matter.