Queensland Consolidated Acts

FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES COMMISSION ACT 2008 - SECT 56

56 Procedure generally

(1) In a conference, the commission—

(a) must observe natural justice; and

(b) must act quickly, and with as little formality and technicality, as is consistent with a fair and proper consideration of the issues before it; and

(c) is not bound by the rules of evidence; and

(d) may inquire into, and inform itself, of anything in the way it considers appropriate.

(2) The commission may, in appropriate cases, hold a conference by using any technology allowing reasonably contemporaneous and continuous communication between persons taking part in the conference.

(3) To the extent a matter relating to the commission’s conduct of a conference is not provided for by this Act, the commission may decide its own procedure.