Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997

PART 16 - MISCELLANEOUS  

SECTION 189   REVIEW OF CERTAIN DECISIONS  

189(1)   Request for review.  

A person who is affected by a reviewable decision of the Regulator may, if dissatisfied with the decision, request the Regulator to reconsider the decision.

189(2)   How request must be made.  

The request must be made by written notice given to the Regulator within the period of 21 days after the day on which the person first receives notice of the decision, or within such further period as the Regulator allows.

189(3)   Request must set out reasons.  

The request must set out the reasons for making the request.

189(4)   Regulator to reconsider decision.  

Upon receipt of the request, the Regulator must reconsider the decision and may, subject to subsection (5), confirm or revoke the decision or vary the decision in such manner as the Regulator thinks fit.

189(5)   Deemed confirmation of decision if delay.  

If the Regulator does not confirm, revoke or vary a decision before the end of the period of 60 days after the day on which the Regulator received the request under subsection (1) to reconsider the decision, the Regulator is taken, at the end of that period, to have confirmed the decision under subsection (4).

189(6)   Notice of Regulator's action.  

If the Regulator confirms, revokes or varies a decision before the end of the period referred to in subsection (5), the Regulator must give written notice to the person telling the person:

(a) the result of the reconsideration of the decision; and

(b) the reasons for confirming, varying or revoking the decision, as the case may be.

189(7)   AAT review of Regulator's decisions.  

Applications may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of decisions of the Regulator that have been confirmed or varied under subsection (4).

189(8)   Period for making certain AAT applications.  

If a decision is taken to be confirmed because of subsection (5), section 29 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 applies as if the prescribed time for making application for review of the decision were the period of 28 days beginning on the day on which the decision is taken to be confirmed.

189(9)   Section 41 of AAT Act.  

If a request is made under subsection (1) in respect of a reviewable decision, section 41 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 applies as if the making of the request were the making of an application to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of that decision.