EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL ACT 1975 ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL REGULATIONS 1986 No. 232
Section 70 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act
Sub-section 20(1) of the Act permits the making of regulations limiting the power of the President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to give directions under that sub-section. Regulation 5A of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Regulations, in so far as it is relevant, requires an application made under section 107VZW of the Repatriation Act 1920 to be dealt with in the Veterans’ Appeals Division of the Tribunal.
The proposed regulations make amendments consequential upon the commencement of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 (Act No 27 Assented to 19 May 1986) which repealed the Repatriation Act 1920. Under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 applications to the Tribunal will be made under section 175.
Details of the proposed regulations are as follows:
Regulation 5A of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Regulations is amended by omitting “107VZW of the Repatriation Act 1920” and substituting “175 of the Veteran’s Entitlement Act 1986”.
Authorized by the Attorney-General