Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

INSURANCE ACQUISITIONS AND TAKEOVERS ACT 1991 - SECT 67

             (1)  Applications may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of decisions of the Minister that have been confirmed or varied under subsection 66(3).

             (2)  If, because of the operation of subsection 66(4), a decision is taken to be confirmed, section 29 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 applies as if the prescribed time for making application for review of the decision were the period commencing on the day on which the decision is taken to have been confirmed and ending on the 28th day after that day.

             (3)  If a request is made under subsection 66(1) in respect of a reviewable decision, section 41 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 applies as if the making of the request were the making of an application to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of that decision.

             (5)  A non‑presidential member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal must not sit as a member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for the purposes of a review of a reviewable decision, or for the purposes of a request under subsection 41(2) of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 in respect of such a decision, if he or she is a director or employee of a company or body carrying on (whether in Australia or elsewhere) life insurance business or insurance business.

             (6)  An order must not be made under subsection 41(2) of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 in respect of a reviewable decision except by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

             (7)  The hearing of a proceeding relating to a reviewable decision must take place in private and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal may, by order:

                     (a)  give directions as to the persons who may be present; and

                     (b)  give directions of a kind referred to in paragraph 35(2)(b) or

                     (c)  of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 .