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ACT CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2008 - SECT 78

Correction requests

    (1)     This section applies if the president requests a correction to an order made on an application (the original application ) to the tribunal.

    (2)     However, this section does not apply to an application for review of a decision under the Heritage Act 2004

, the Planning Act 2023

or the Urban Forest Act 2023

.

    (3)     The president must—

        (a)     allocate 1 or more tribunal members to a correction tribunal to consider the request for correction; and

        (b)     give notice of the request to the parties to the original application.

    (4)     The correction tribunal may—

        (a)     hear submissions from the parties as to whether the correction should be made; or

        (b)     if, the tribunal is satisfied that no party would be disadvantaged by the tribunal not hearing submissions—make a decision under subsection (5) without hearing submissions.

    (5)     The correction tribunal must—

        (a)     make the correction if, in all the circumstances of the case, the tribunal considers it appropriate to do so; or

        (b)     refuse to make the correction.

    (6)     A correction tribunal is made up of 1 or more of the following tribunal members allocated by the president:

        (a)     a presidential member;

        (b)     a senior member who is a lawyer and has been a lawyer for 5 years or more.



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