53. Conduct of oral hearing by review committee for application to vary or revoke third party exclusion order or third party visit limit

Where the Council has delegated to a review committee the power to determine an application to vary or revoke a third party exclusion order or third party visit limit under section 166(1)(b) of the Act and the review committee decides to conduct an oral hearing for the application, the review committee is to conduct that hearing in the manner set out below —

the chairperson of the review committee is to give a brief statement of the facts of the application;

the review committee must have regard to and consider the evidence of —

the third party respondent; and

such other person as the review committee may think relevant to determine the application;

where any person was requested to attend the proceedings but fails to do so, or states that the person does not wish to be present at the proceedings, the chairperson of the review committee must make a note of that fact in the record of proceedings; and

the third party respondent may, with the permission of the chairperson of the review committee, produce one or more witnesses to give evidence on matters relating to the application.