2201746 (Refugee)

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) considered an application for review concerning a protection visa. The applicant sought to have a decision reviewed by the Tribunal, but the delegate's decision had previously been the subject of a valid review.

The central legal issue before the Tribunal was whether it possessed jurisdiction to review a decision that had already undergone a prior review. The Tribunal was required to determine if a decision, once reviewed, remained a "reviewable decision" for the purposes of a subsequent application.

The Tribunal reasoned that once a decision has been validly reviewed by the Tribunal, it ceases to be a reviewable decision. Consequently, the Tribunal determined that it lacked jurisdiction to entertain a further application for review in relation to that same decision. The Tribunal therefore concluded that it did not have jurisdiction in the matter.