WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 555 Adjourned hearing

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 555

555 Adjourned hearing

(1) The appeal body may, at any time before or after the start of the hearing, adjourn the hearing if—

(a) the appeal body is satisfied the hearing could be held more conveniently at a future time; or

(b) if the appeal body is an industrial magistrate, the appeal body is satisfied that the hearing could be held more conveniently at another place or before another industrial magistrate—

(i) having regard to the difficulty or expense of producing witnesses; or

(ii) for another appropriate reason.

(2) If subsection (1) (b) applies—

(a) the appeal body must send the relevant documents to the registrar of the appropriate Magistrates Court; and

(b) the other industrial magistrate has jurisdiction to decide the matter as if it had been brought before that magistrate.