Queensland Consolidated Acts

QUEENSLAND CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2009 - SECT 44

44 Use of interpreters and other persons

(1) Unless the tribunal directs otherwise, a party to a proceeding or a witness may be helped in a proceeding by—

(a) an interpreter; or

(b) another person necessary or desirable to make the proceeding intelligible to the party or witness, including, for example, a person with appropriate cultural or social knowledge and experience.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) , the tribunal may arrange for an interpreter or another person to help a party or witness.

(3) In this section—

"interpreter" includes a person who interprets signs made or other things done by a person who can not speak or can not speak clearly enough to take part in a proceeding.