The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT)http://www.ncat.nsw.gov.au/ncat/index.html commenced on 1 January 2014 pursuant to the NSW Civil and Administrative Act 2013 and Civil and Administrative Regulation 2013.

The NCAT takes over the functions of 22 former state tribunals, including:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Tribunal
• Aboriginal Land Councils Pecuniary Interest and Disciplinary Tribunal
• Administrative Decisions Tribunal
• Charity Referees
• Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal
• Dental Tribunal
• Guardianship Tribunal
• Chinese Medicine Tribunal
• Chiropractic Tribunal
• Medical Radiation Practice Tribunal
• Medical Tribunal
• Nursing and Midwifery Tribunal
• Occupational Therapy Tribunal
• Optometry Tribunal
• Osteopathy Tribunal
• Pharmacy Tribunal
• Physiotherapy Tribunal
• Podiatry Tribunal
• Psychology Tribunal
• Local Government Pecuniary Interest and Disciplinary Tribunal
• Local Land Boards
• Victims Compensation Tribunal (transferred into the ADT in June 2013)
• Vocational Training Appeals Panel.

The NCAT is constituted by a President (a Supreme Court judge), Deputy Presidents of each of the four divisions, a Principal Registrars and Members including Principal Member, Senior Members and General Members.

The NCAT has four divisions:

• Administrative and Equal Opportunity, which deals with review of administrative decisions of government agencies and resolution of discrimination matters.
• Consumer and Commercial, which deals with a broad number of disputes about the supply of goods and services, including agent commissions and fees; agricultural tenancies; boarding houses; consumer claims; conveyancing costs; dividing fences; holiday parks (long-term occupancy); home building; motor vehicles; pawnbrokers and second-hand dealers; residential parks; retail leases; retirement villages; social housing; strata and community schemes; tenancy; travel compensation fund appeals.
• Guardianship, which has jurisdiction over people who live in NSW or hold property or financial assets in NSW: to make guardianship orders for the appointment of a private or public guardian; make financial orders for a private or public financial manager; provide consent for medical or dental treatment; review enduring powers of attorney; review an enduring guardianship appointment; approve a clinical trial involving people with decision-making disabilities.
• Occupational, including: administrative review of licensing decisions with respect to transport drivers/operators, security guards, builders, real estate agents, motor dealers and repairers, pawnbrokers and second hand dealers, stock and station agents, business agents, travel agents, valuers and licenced conveyancers; professional discipline of occupations governed by a statutory council, board, panel or authority.

The current President is Justice Robertson Wright SC and the Deputy-Presidents are Magistrate Nancy Hennessy, Mr M D Schyvens, Mr Stuart Westgarth, The Hon. Wayne Haylen QC and Judge Kevin O’Connor AM.

The principal registry is located at Level 9, John Maddison Tower, 86-90 Goulburn Street, Sydney NSW 2000, tel 1300 006 228.

The divisional registries are:

• Administrative and Equal Opportunity: Level 10, John Maddison Tower, 86-90 Goulburn Street, Sydney NSW 2000.
• Consumer and Commercial: Level 12, 175 Castlereagh Street, Sydney NSW 2000 (also at Liverpool, Hurstville, Newcastle, Penrith, Tamworth and Wollongong).
• Guardianship: Level 3, 2a Rowntree Street Balmain NSW 2041.
• Occupational: Level 10, John Maddison Tower, 86-90 Goulburn Street, Sydney NSW 2000.

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