Commonwealth Numbered Acts

DEFENCE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1988 No. 104 of 1988 - SECT 39

39. After section 86 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Cancellation of elections

"86A. Where:

   (a)  a person makes an election (whether before or after the commencement
        of this subsection) under section 74, 82R or 82Z;

   (b)  that person makes an application to the Authority not later than 3
        months after the day on which the election is made, or within such
        further period as the Authority, in special circumstances, allows,
        requesting that the Authority cancel the election; and

   (c)  the Authority, having regard to such matters (if any) as it considers
        relevant, is satisfied that the election should be cancelled; the
        Authority may direct that the election shall be cancelled and, if it
        so directs, this Act has effect as if the election had not been
        made.".