ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2008

This section applies if a tribunal (the requesting tribunal) is dealing with an application.

However, this section does not apply to an application for review of a decision under the Heritage Act 2004, the Planning Act 2023 or the Urban Forest Act 2023.

The requesting tribunal may, on its own initiative or on application by a party, ask the president to allocate 1 or more tribunal members to a tribunal (the ruling tribunal) to give a ruling on a question of law.

If the ruling tribunal gives a ruling on a question of law, the requesting tribunal is bound by the ruling.

Question of law includes whether a question is a question of law (see dict).

A ruling tribunal is made up of 1 or more of the following tribunal members allocated by the president:

a presidential member;

a senior member who is a lawyer and has been a lawyer for 5 years or more.

However, a ruling tribunal must not contain a tribunal member allocated to the requesting tribunal.