QUEENSLAND CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2009 - SECT 140
Effect of decision to reopen
QUEENSLAND CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2009 - SECT 140
Effect of decision to reopen
140 Effect of decision to reopen
(1) If, under section 139, the tribunal decides a proceeding should be
reopened, the tribunal must decide the issues in the proceeding that must be
heard and decided again.
(2) The issues must be heard and decided by way of a
fresh hearing on the merits, and subsection (1) does not prevent the tribunal
from hearing and deciding other related issues in the proceeding.
(3) The
hearing and deciding of the issues and any related issues are taken to be a
part of the original proceeding.
(4) The tribunal may—
(a) confirm or amend
the tribunal’s previous final decision in the proceeding; or
(b) set aside
the tribunal’s previous final decision in the proceeding and substitute a
new decision.
(5) For this Act or an enabling Act, the decision of the
tribunal as confirmed, amended or substituted under subsection (4) is the
tribunal’s final decision in the proceeding.
(6) The proceeding can not be
reopened again under this division.
