Crown Proceedings Act 1993

This section applies to proceedings where an Act removes or restricts the right of a party to be represented in the proceedings by a practitioner.

In proceedings to which this section applies, the State Crown or the Attorney-General, if a party to the proceedings, may be represented by an officer, employee or agent of the Crown (not being a practitioner) authorized to conduct the proceedings on behalf of the Crown or the Attorney-General.

In proceedings to which this section applies, a document apparently signed by a Minister or the person having chief executive authority in an agency, instrumentality, department or administrative unit of the State Crown which appears to be an authorization of the kind contemplated by subsection (2) is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, to be taken as such an authorization.