EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS (JUDICIAL REVIEW) ACT 1977
ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS (JUDICIAL REVIEW) REGULATIONS
1986 No. 108
Section 20 of the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing all matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed by regulations.
Sub-section 19(1) of the Act provides that the regulations may declare a class or classes of decisions to be decisions that are not subject to judicial review by the Court under the Act.
The purpose of the proposed regulations is to declare decisions made under the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry Act 1986, not subject to judicial review under the Act.
Details of the proposed regulations are as follows:
Regulation 3 of the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Regulations is amended by adding at the end the following paragraph:
“(e) decisions under the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry Act 1986”.
Authorized by the Attorney-General