Crimes (Criminal Organisations Control) Act 2012

This section applies to a hearing for an application at which the criminal intelligence monitor appears.

The monitor may—

for the purpose of testing the appropriateness and validity of the application—

present questions for the applicant to answer, or

examine or cross-examine a witness, or

make submissions to the Court about the appropriateness of granting the application.

However, the monitor must not make a submission to the Court while a respondent or a legal representative of a respondent is present.

The Court may, in its discretion, exclude the monitor from the hearing while a respondent or a legal representative of a respondent is present.

In this section—