Tribunals Amalgamation Act 2015 (60 of 2015)

Schedule 8   Other consequential amendments

Part 1   Consequential amendments

Freedom of Information Act 1982

22   Subsections 58B(3) and (4)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

(3) Despite paragraph 19A(1)(b) of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, if the Tribunal is constituted by 3 presidential members, the person who is to preside at a hearing of the proceeding is:

(a) if the President of the Tribunal is one of the members - the President; or

(b) if the President of the Tribunal is not one of the members but one or more Judges is - the most senior (or only) Judge; or

(c) if paragraphs (a) and (b) do not apply - the Deputy President of the Tribunal whom the President of the Tribunal directs to preside.