New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 159

159 Arrangement of business

(1) The President of the Commission is (subject to this Act and the rules of the Commission) to direct the business of the Commission.

(1A) Without limiting subsection (1), a direction given under that subsection may be limited to particular proceedings (or particular classes of proceedings) specified in the direction.

(2) Despite anything to the contrary in this Act, if the President of the Commission is not a judicial member, the function of allocating a matter for hearing and determination by a judicial member as the Commission in Court Session, including constituting a Full Bench of the Commission in Court Session, must be exercised by the most senior judicial member.