New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHARITABLE FUNDRAISING ACT 1991 - SECT 41H

41H Right of appearance

(1) Any Australian legal practitioner appointed by the Crown to assist a public inquirer may appear before a public inquiry.

(2) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the public inquirer that any person is substantially and directly interested in any subject-matter of a public inquiry, the public inquirer may allow the person (the
"affected person" ) to appear at the public inquiry or a specified part of the public inquiry.

(3) The public inquirer may authorise--

(a) a person giving evidence at a public inquiry, or

(b) an affected person,

to be represented by an Australian legal practitioner at the public inquiry or a specified part of the public inquiry.

(4) The public inquirer is required to give a reasonable opportunity for a person giving evidence at a public inquiry to be legally represented.