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Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 1998
25BMember or former member may not appear as expert witness
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25B Member or former member may not appear as expert witness
(1) If the rules provide for proceedings to be entered in or transferred to lists of the Tribunal and for members to be assigned to those lists—
(a) a member must not appear as an expert witness in any proceeding that has been entered into or transferred to a list to which the member has been assigned, except with the approval of the President; and
(b) for a period of 2 years after a member ceases to be a member, the former member must not appear as an expert witness in any proceeding that has been entered into or transferred to a list to which the former member was assigned, except with the approval of the President.
(2) This section is subject to any other provision of this Act or an enabling enactment that allows a member or former member to appear as a witness.
See, for example, section 30 of the **Valuation of Land Act 1960**.