Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 No. 156 of 1976 - SECT 49

49. (1) When any proceeding, after being fully heard before a Full Court of
the Court, is ordered to stand for judgment, it shall not be necessary that
all the Judges before whom it was heard shall be present together in Court to
declare their opinions thereon, but the opinion of any of them may be reduced
to writing and may be read by any other Judge at any subsequent sitting of a
Full Court of the Court at which judgment in the proceeding is appointed to be
delivered.

(2) In any such case the question shall be decided in the same manner, and the
judgment of the Court shall have the same force and effect, as if the Judge
whose opinion is so read had been present in Court and declared his opinion in
person.