Australian Capital Territory Current Regulations Australian Capital Territory Current Regulations(1) An applicant may include someone else as a party to an arbitration by naming the person in the application.
(2) A respondent may include someone else as a party to an arbitration (a third-party respondent ) by filing a third-party notice.
Example
If a worker contracts a disease or suffers an aggravation, acceleration or recurrence of a disease, a respondent employer claiming to be entitled to contribution from another employer may include the other employer as a third-party respondent.
Note See approved form 3.61 (Arbitration—third-party notice) AF2006-498
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(3) A party including a person as a third-party respondent must, not later than 14 days after the day the party files the notice—
(a) serve a sealed copy of the notice, the application for arbitration and any answer filed in the arbitration, on the person; and
(b) serve a sealed copy of the notice on each other party to the arbitration.
(4) The court may, at any time, order a party who has included a person as a party in an arbitration to—
(a) serve on the person any document in the arbitration; or
(b) file and serve on the person and each other party an affidavit setting out the basis on which the person has been included.