Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REPATRIATION ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1979 No. 18, 1979 - SECT 4

4. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by adding at the end of sub-section (1) the following definition:

'' 'Tribunal' means the Repatriation Review Tribunal established by section
107VB.''; and

   (b)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:
''(3) In this Act-

   (a)  a reference to a period of 3 months after the service on a person, in
        accordance with section 47A, of a copy of a decision of the Commission
        or a Board;

   (b)  a reference to a period of 3 months after the service on a person, in
        accordance with section 107VK, of a copy of a decision of the
        Tribunal; or

   (c)  a reference to a period of 3 months after the service on a person, in
        accordance with sub-section (3) of section 43 of the Administrative
        Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, of a copy of a decision of the
        Administrative Appeals Tribunal,

shall, in relation to a person who was at any time during that period of 3
months a resident of the Torres Strait Islands, be read as including a further
period of 3 months commencing on the expiration of that first period of 3
months.''.