FOREIGN PASSPORTS (LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SECURITY) ACT 2005 - SECT 23 Administrative review

FOREIGN PASSPORTS (LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SECURITY) ACT 2005 - SECT 23

  (1)   Application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of a decision by the Minister under section   16 (other than subsection   16(1A)) to order the surrender of a person's foreign travel documents.

  (2)   For the purposes of section   27 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 , the only person whose interests are taken to be affected by the decision is the person whose foreign travel documents are ordered to be surrendered.

  (3)   The Minister may, if the Minister makes a decision in response to a request under section   15, certify that the decision involved matters of international relations or criminal intelligence.

  (4)   Despite section   43 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 , if the Minister has given a certificate under subsection   (3) in relation to a decision, then in any review of that decision the Administrative Appeals Tribunal may only make a decision:

  (a)   affirming the Minister's decision; or

  (b)   remitting the decision to the Minister for reconsideration in accordance with any directions or recommendations of the Tribunal.