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CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2013 - SECT 44 Parties and intervention

CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2013 - SECT 44

Parties and intervention

44 Parties and intervention

(1) The Tribunal may order that a person be joined as a party to proceedings if the Tribunal considers that the person should be joined as a party.
(2) The Tribunal may order that a person be removed as a party to proceedings if the Tribunal considers that the person has--
(a) been improperly or unnecessarily joined, or
(b) ceased to be a proper or necessary party.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt, the member or members who constituted the Tribunal when it made an internally appealable decision cannot be made parties to an internal appeal against the decision.
(4) The following persons may intervene and be heard in proceedings to which they are not already parties--
(a) the Attorney General,
(b) a Minister who administers the legislation that confers or imposes functions the exercise (or purported exercise) of which are in issue in the proceedings,
(c) any other person who is authorised by this Act, enabling legislation or the procedural rules to intervene in the proceedings.
(5) A Minister may (from money otherwise lawfully available for the purpose) authorise the payment to a party to the proceedings in which the Minister or the Minister's delegate intervenes such costs (if any) as the Minister considers were reasonably incurred by that party in relation to the proceedings as a result of that intervention.