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New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal

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Formed
  
1 January 2014

Legal tribunal executive
  
, President

Jurisdiction
  
New South Wales

New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Superseding agency
  
Administrative Decisions Tribunal, Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal, Guardianship Tribunal, Nurses and Midwives Tribunal, and 18 other tribunals

Headquarters
  
Level 9, John Maddison Tower, 86-90 Goulburn Street, Sydney

Ministers responsible
  
The Hon Gabrielle Upton MP, Attorney General of New South Wales The Hon Troy Grant MP, Minister for Justice

The New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) is an administrative law tribunal in New South Wales established by statute on 1 January 2014.

Contents

It replaced and aggregated the matters of a number of disparate tribunals.

The NCAT specifically replaced the Administrative Decisions Tribunal of New South Wales and the work of a former 21 other tribunals into a single point of access for specialist tribunal services in NSW.

Organisational structure

The NCAT has four operational divisions:

  • Administrative and Equal Opportunity Division
  • Consumer and Commercial Division
  • Guardianship Division
  • Occupational Division

    • Given certain circumstances parties may appeal decisions to NCAT's Internal Appeal Panel. Internal appeals are made on questions of law. Applications can only be made about the merits of a decision if the Appeal Panel gives permission. Some Division decisions are not subject to an internal appeal and may be appealed directly to the Supreme Court or Court of Appeal.

    Alternatives to appeal

  • An appeal may not always be the most appropriate course when there is a difficulty or problem with a decision of the Tribunal. As an alternative to appealing, a party can:
  • ask the Tribunal to set aside the decision (where all parties consent, or the where the Tribunal is satisfied that a decision made in a party's absence has resulted in the party's case not being adequately put to the tribunal)
  • ask the Tribunal to set aside proceedings or a decision (where there has been a failure to comply with certain procedural rules)
  • ask the Tribunal to correct an obvious error in a decision or reasons for a decision (for example, clerical errors, accidental omissions, defects in forms or inconsistencies between the orders and the reasons for a decision)

    • References

    New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal Wikipedia
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