New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT APPEAL BOARDS ACT 1980 - SECT 14

14 Time for hearing of appeals

(1) Subject to subsection (2), an appeal shall be heard by a Board within 30 days from the date of its lodgment with the secretary.

(2) Where:

(a) the volume of work confronting a Board is such that an appeal cannot be heard conveniently within 30 days,

(b) owing to illness or unavailability of witnesses, the Chairperson or members of a Board, the appeal cannot be heard within 30 days,

(c) criminal proceedings have been commenced against an appellant for any offence (being criminal proceedings in respect of which the issues required to be determined are so closely related to the issues for determination by a Board that, in the opinion of the Board, it is reasonable to adjourn the hearing of the appeal pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings), or

(d) the parties to the proceedings before a Board agree that the hearing should be adjourned,

the Board may adjourn the hearing of the appeal to a date later than 30 days from the date of lodgment of the appeal with the secretary.