Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 49

  (1)   This section applies where judgment is reserved in any proceeding before the Court.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   the Court reserves judgment in a proceeding; and

  (b)   a Judge who heard the proceeding, whether as a single Judge or as a member of a Full Court, prepares orders and reasons;

those orders and reasons may be made public by another Judge on behalf of the Judge who heard the proceeding or as otherwise provided for by the Rules of Court.

  (2A)   If:

  (a)   the Court reserves reasons for its decision in a proceeding; and

  (b)   a Judge who heard the proceeding, whether as a single Judge or as a member of a Full Court, prepares reasons;

those reasons may be made public by another Judge on behalf of the Judge who heard the proceeding or as otherwise provided for by the Rules of Court.

  (3)   A judgment made public in accordance with this section has the same effect as it would have if it were made public by the Judge whose judgment it is.