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FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 33E

Is consent required to be a group member?

  (1)   The consent of a person to be a group member in a representative proceeding is not required unless subsection   (2) applies to the person.

  (2)   None of the following persons is a group member in a representative proceeding unless the person gives written consent to being so:

  (a)   the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;

  (b)   a Minister or a Minister of a State or Territory;

  (c)   a body corporate established for a public purpose by a law of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory, other than an incorporated company or association; or

  (d)   an officer of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory, in his or her capacity as such an officer.



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