Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts(1) The rules the tribunal may make under section 24 include, but are not limited to, rules to do the following:
(a) to allow the tribunal to make orders in a short form;
(b) to prescribe how the tribunal may deal with applications and other proceedings, including when a tribunal may stop a person representing another person before the tribunal;
(c) to facilitate the early resolution of matters arising in applications;
Example
The tribunal may make rules about referring an application to an agency that the tribunal considers is more appropriate to handle the application.
Note An example is part of the Act, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act, s 126 and s 132).
(d) to prescribe the functions, and limits on the functions, of the registrar;
(e) to prescribe a time for doing a thing by a person that is longer than the time for doing the thing provided under this Act or an authorising law—
(i) in relation to an application to the tribunal; but
(ii) not in relation to any thing to be done by the tribunal;
Example
a rule about the time for filing an application
(f) to allow the tribunal to make orders about costs for complying with subpoenas.
(2) If a rule of a kind mentioned in subsection (1) (e) prescribes a time for doing something that is longer than the time for doing the thing set out in this Act or an authorising law, the time for doing the thing is the longer time prescribed by rule.