Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMPLAINTS (AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE) ACT 1981 No. 21 of 1981 - SECT 53

PART VI - THE FEDERAL POLICE DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL

Division 1 - Preliminary
53. (1) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears -



"Deputy President" means a Deputy President of the Disciplinary Tribunal;

"judicial office" means -

   (a)  an office of Judge of the Federal Court of Australia or of the Supreme
        Court of a State or Territory; or

   (b)  an office the holder of which has, by virtue of an Act, the same
        status as a Judge referred to in paragraph (a);



"legal practitioner" means a barrister, a solicitor, a barrister and solicitor
or a legal practitioner of the High Court or of the Supreme Court of a State
or Territory;



"President" means the President of the Disciplinary Tribunal;



"Registrar" means the Registrar of the Disciplinary Tribunal.

(2) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to a
proceeding before the Disciplinary Tribunal shall be read as a reference to -

   (a)  a proceeding in respect of a charge required to be heard by the
        Tribunal under section 67;

   (b)  an appeal to the Tribunal under section 68 or 69; or

   (c)  an inquiry by the Tribunal into a matter referred by the Minister to
        the Tribunal under section 70.

(3) For the purposes of this Part and of the prescribed regulations in their
application for the purposes of this Part, a power under the prescribed
regulations to recommend to the Governor-General that the Governor-General
reduce a member to a lower rank or dismiss the member from the Australian
Federal Police in respect of a breach of discipline shall be deemed to be a
power to impose a penalty on the member in respect of the breach of
discipline, and the making, in respect of a member, of such a recommendation
shall be deemed to be the imposition of a penalty on the member.

Division 2 - Establishment of Federal Police

Disciplinary Tribunal