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Electricity Industry Act 2010

Electricity industry governance - Monitoring and enforcement - Appeals

68: High Court may refer appeals back for reconsideration

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"Court can ask for a second look at decisions"

If you appeal a decision made by the Rulings Panel to the High Court, the court might not make a final decision on your appeal. Instead, the court can tell the Rulings Panel to look at the case again. This can be for the whole case or just part of it.

When the court does this, it must tell the Rulings Panel why it's asking them to reconsider. The court will also give the Rulings Panel instructions on how to look at the case again.

When the Rulings Panel reconsiders the case, they have to think about why the court sent it back to them. They also need to follow any instructions the court gave them about how to look at the case again.

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Monitoring and enforcement: Appeals

68High Court may refer appeals back for reconsideration

  1. The High Court may, instead of determining an appeal, direct the Rulings Panel to reconsider, either generally or in respect of any specified matters, the whole or any specified part of the matter to which the appeal relates.

  2. In giving any direction under this section, the court must—

  3. advise the Rulings Panel of its reasons for doing so; and
    1. give to the Rulings Panel any directions that it thinks just concerning the reconsideration or otherwise of the whole or any part of the matter that is referred back.

      1. In reconsidering the matter, the Rulings Panel must have regard to the court's reasons for giving the direction, and the court's directions.

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