Apprenticeship and Traineeship Act 2001

A party to a complaint is not entitled to be represented by an Australian legal practitioner except with the consent of the Commissioner and of each of the other parties to the hearing.

This section—

does not prevent a party from being represented by an industrial organisation, and

does not prevent the Crown, or a party that is a corporation or an industrial organisation, from appearing by an Australian legal practitioner.

At any hearing at which the Crown, or a party that is a corporation or an industrial organisation, appears by an Australian legal practitioner, each of the other parties to the hearing is entitled to be represented at the hearing by an Australian legal practitioner.

In this section industrial organisation has the same meaning as it has in the Industrial Relations Act 1996.