ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1991 - SECT 229 Power of tribunal to dismiss claim or strike out party

ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1991 - SECT 229

229 Power of tribunal to dismiss claim or strike out party

If a party to a proceeding before the Land Tribunal fails either to appear at a preliminary conference or at the hearing of the proceeding, the tribunal may—

(a) if the party has made a claim under this Act to which the proceeding relates—dismiss the claim concerned; or

(b) in any other case—direct that the person who failed to appear is to cease to be a party to the proceeding.