EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL ACT 1975
ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL REGULATIONS
1984 No. 383
These Regulations establish the Veterans’ Appeals Division of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and provide which matters are to be dealt with by the Division.
Details of the Regulations are as follows -
Regulation 1 inserts a new Regulation 4A into the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Regulations establishing a Veterans’ Appeals Division of the Tribunal. This provision commences upon notification in the Gazette.
Sub-regulation 2(1) inserts a new Regulation 5A into the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Regulations which provides that an application for review under section 107VZW of the Repatriation Act 1920 or section 39 of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1949, or a matter remitted to the Tribunal by virtue of section 59 of the Repatriation Legislation Amendment Act 1984 (a transitional provision) under sub-section 107VZZH(5) of the Repatriation Act 1920 shall be dealt with in the Veterans’ Appeals Division of the Tribunal. Sub-regulation 2(2) provides that this Regulation comes into operation on 1 January 1985.
Authorised by the Attorney-General