Parajum (Migration)

The applicant, Parajum, sought review of a decision. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) was required to determine whether it had jurisdiction to hear the review application.

The central legal issue before the Tribunal was whether the applicant's application for review had been lodged within the time prescribed by the relevant legislation. This involved determining the date on which the applicant was taken to have been notified of the original decision.

The Tribunal applied section 494C of the *Migration Act 1958* (Cth), which deems notification to have occurred on a specific date. Based on this provision, the Tribunal found that the applicant was notified of the decision on 18 July 2017. Consequently, the prescribed period for lodging a review application expired on 8 August 2017. As the application was received on 18 August 2017, it was lodged out of time.

The Tribunal concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to consider the review application because it was not made in accordance with the relevant legislative requirements.