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Promotion of Administrative Justice Act, 2000 (Act No. 3 of 2000)

Regulations on Fair Administrative Procedures, 2002

Chapter 1 : Public Inquiries

Part 2: Public hearings

13. Person presiding at public hearings

 

1) The administrator or, if a person or panel has been appointed to conduct the public inquiry, that person or the convenor of the panel, or another panel member designated by the convenor, presides at a public hearing.

 

2) The person presiding at a public hearing, either in person or through an assistant, must explain the issues the administrator or the person or panel has to consider, and the person presiding may :
a) allow a person present at the proceedings and whose request for permission referred to in regulation 3(7) has been granted, to give evidence, to make oral representations or to produce a document;
b) call any other person present at the proceedings to give evidence, to make oral representations or to produce a document in that person's custody;
c) administer an oath or solemn affirmation to that person;
d) question that person, or have that person questioned by a person designated by the person presiding; and
e) retain for a reasonable period any document produced in terms of paragraph (a) or (b).