Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

BUSINESS TENANCIES (FAIR DEALINGS) ACT 2003 - SECT 101

The Hearing Commissioner may do any of the following for an inquiry:

        (a)     hear the application in the manner the Hearing Commissioner thinks fit;

        (b)     decline to consider the application or adjourn the inquiry until conditions fixed by the Hearing Commissioner are fulfilled, with a view to promoting the settlement of matters in dispute between the parties;

        (c)     decline to consider the application if the Hearing Commissioner thinks it is frivolous or vexatious;

        (d)     proceed to hear and determine the application in the absence of a party;

        (e)     extend a period prescribed by or under this Act within which the application or other step in respect of proceedings is to be made or taken, whether or not the period has expired;

        (f)     adjourn the inquiry to a time or place or to a time and place to be fixed;

        (g)     allow the amendment of the application;

        (h)     hear the application jointly with another application;

            (i)     receive in evidence a transcript of evidence in proceedings before a court and draw conclusions of fact from that evidence;

        (j)     generally give directions and do all things the Hearing Commissioner thinks necessary or expedient in the proceedings.