Queensland Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1991 - SECT 228

228 Manner in which questions to be decided

(1) A question of law arising in a proceeding before the Land Tribunal at which a presiding member is presiding (including the question whether a particular question is one of law) is to be decided in accordance with the opinion of the member presiding.

(2) Subject to subsection (1) , when the members constituting the tribunal for the purposes of a particular proceeding are divided in opinion as to the decision to be made on any question—

(a) if there is a majority of the one opinion—the question is to be decided according to the opinion of the majority; or

(b) in any other case—the question is to be decided according to the opinion of the member presiding.