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INDEPENDENT PRICING AND REGULATORY TRIBUNAL ACT 1992 - SECT 6 Members and procedure of the Tribunal

INDEPENDENT PRICING AND REGULATORY TRIBUNAL ACT 1992 - SECT 6

Members and procedure of the Tribunal

6 Members and procedure of the Tribunal

(1) The Tribunal consists of 3 members appointed by the Minister as the permanent members of the Tribunal, and any number of additional members appointed by the Minister as temporary members.
(2) Of the permanent members of the Tribunal, one is to be appointed as Chairperson.
(3) A member of the Tribunal may be appointed as a full-time or part-time member.
(4) The Minister is to ensure that the persons appointed as permanent members of the Tribunal have together a knowledge and understanding of economics, the interests of consumers and the interests of suppliers of services (including the interests of the Government as a supplier of services), whether the services supplied are monopoly services or not.
(5) Schedule 2 has effect with respect to the members of the Tribunal.
(6) Schedule 3 has effect with respect to the procedure of the Tribunal.