2013660 (Refugee)

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) considered an application for review by a party whose identity is not specified in the provided text. The dispute concerned the timeliness of the application for review, which the Tribunal was required to assess for jurisdictional validity.

The central legal issue before the Tribunal was whether the application for review had been made in accordance with the relevant legislation, specifically concerning the date of lodgement. This determination was critical to establishing whether the Tribunal possessed the necessary jurisdiction to hear the substantive merits of the application.

The Tribunal reasoned that the application for review was lodged on 4 September 2020. Applying the relevant legislative provisions, the Tribunal concluded that this lodgement date meant the application was not made in accordance with the statutory requirements. Consequently, the Tribunal found it lacked jurisdiction to proceed with the matter. The Tribunal therefore made no orders on the merits of the application.