Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

PART IV - REVIEWS BY THE TRIBUNAL OF DECISIONS  

Division 1 - Applications for review of decisions  

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Div 1 heading inserted by No 38 of 2005. For transitional provisions see note under s 2A .

SECTION 27   PERSONS WHO MAY APPLY TO TRIBUNAL  

27(1)    

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Where this Act or any other enactment (other than the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 ) provides that an application may be made to the Tribunal for a review of a decision, the application may be made by or on behalf of any person or persons (including the Commonwealth or an authority of the Commonwealth or Norfolk Island or an authority of Norfolk Island) whose interests are affected by the decision.

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The enactment may be regulations made for the purposes of subsection 25(2) (review of decisions made in the exercise of powers conferred by a Norfolk Island enactment).

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S 27(1) amended by No 139 of 2010, s 3 and Sch 1 items 138 and 139, by inserting " or Norfolk Island or an authority of Norfolk Island " after " authority of the Commonwealth " and inserting the note at the end, effective 1 January 2011.

S 27(1) amended by No 58 of 1977, s 38; No 175 of 1995, s 3, Sch 1; No 161 of 1999, s 2, Sch 3 [ 6].

27(2)    
An organization or association of persons, whether incorporated or not, shall be taken to have interests that are affected by a decision if the decision relates to a matter included in the objects or purposes of the organization or association.

27(3)    
Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to a decision given before the organization or association was formed or before the objects or purposes of the organization or association included the matter concerned.

[ CCH Note : S 14ZZB of the Taxation Administration Act , which commenced 1 March 1992, provides that s 27 does not apply to a reviewable objection decision (other than a reviewable objection decision that relates to a registration-type sales tax decision) or to an extension of time refusal decision.]

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