In Australia, natural justice applies to the disciplinary procedures of incorporated associations through construction and implication of the association's rules, not as an overriding public policy incapable of contractual exclusion. Express words or necessary implication in the rules can exclude natural justice requirements in whole or part. Where association rules contain conflicting notice provisions for disciplinary appeals and special resolutions, the specific disciplinary appeal notice provision prevails over the general special resolution notice requirement. An appeal to a general meeting with full power to decide guilt and penalty can cure earlier procedural defects at committee level.
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