New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS TRIBUNAL RULES 1998 - REG 42

42 Access to documents or things in Registry

(1) Subject to the Act, the Registrar may (in consultation with the President) permit any person to do any one or more of the following on such terms as the Registrar may specify:

(a) take a document out of the Registry,

(b) search for a document in the Registry,

(c) inspect any document or thing in the Registry,

(d) make a copy of a document in the Registry,

(e) have any other kind of access to a document or thing in the Registry as is specified by the Registrar.

(2) A person may have access to a document or thing in the Registry only in accordance with any permission given under subrule (1) or as otherwise authorised by or under the Act.

Note : Section 58 of the Act requires the Registrar to grant to applicants for a review of a reviewable decision reasonable access to documents lodged under that section with the Tribunal by the administrator concerned.

(3) A party to proceedings may not search for or inspect in the Registry any document relating to the proceedings if:

(a) the Tribunal has ordered that the document not be disclosed without the consent of the Tribunal, or

(b) the disclosure of the document to the party is otherwise prohibited by or under the Act or another law.

Note : See, in particular, Part 1 of Chapter 8 to the Act, which contains provisions concerning the disclosure of information for the purposes of the Act.