New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS TRIBUNAL ACT 1997 - SECT 139

139 Notices and other documents to be written in other languages

(1) If:

(a) the Tribunal is required, by or under this Act, to cause a document or other instrument to be served on, or given to, any person, and

(b) it appears to the Tribunal that the person is blind or illiterate or is not literate in the English language,

the Tribunal is, in so far as it is reasonably practicable, to cause the information contained in the document or other instrument to be communicated to the person in a manner that the person understands, which may include (in the case of a person who is literate in another language) by means of a document or other instrument written in that other language.

(2) Failure to comply with this section does not affect any thing done under any other provision of this Act.