Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 No. 3 of 1982 - SECT 83

83. (1) Where the hearing of any proceeding has been commenced or completed by
the Document Review Tribunal constituted by 2 or more members but, before the
matter to which the proceeding relates has been determined, one of the members
constituting the Tribunal for the purposes of the proceeding has ceased to be
a member or has ceased to be available for the purposes of the proceeding -

   (a)  if the parties agree and the President does not give a direction under
section 80 reconstituting the Tribunal for the purposes of the
proceeding,
the hearing and determination, or the determination, of the
proceeding may be completed by the Tribunal constituted by the
remaining member or members; or

   (b)  in any other case - the proceeding shall be reheard by the Tribunal as
reconstituted in accordance with the directions of the President under
section 80.

(2) Where a proceeding is reheard by the Document Review Tribunal, the
Tribunal may, for the purposes of that proceeding, have regard to any record
of the proceeding before the Tribunal as previously constituted including a
record of any evidence taken in the proceeding.