New South Wales Repealed Acts

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ADOPTION INFORMATION ACT 1990 - SECT 36

36 Decisions that are reviewable by Administrative Decisions Tribunal

(1) For the purposes of section 40 (1) (a) of the Community Services (Complaints, Reviews and Monitoring) Act 1993 , any of the following decisions made by the Director-General are reviewable by the Administrative Decisions Tribunal:

(a) a failure or refusal to supply any birth certificate or prescribed information to a person, or to authorise the Registrar or another information source to do so under this Act,

(b) a failure or refusal to enter the name of any person in a register under this Act,

(c) a failure or refusal to arrange a reunion or take action to locate a person under Part 4,

(d) a failure or refusal to approach a person who has lodged a contact veto in accordance with a request made under section 24,

(e) a decision made under or for the purposes of this Act by the Director-General that is a decision within a class of decisions prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.

(2) Despite section 40 of the Community Services (Complaints, Reviews and Monitoring) Act 1993 , an application cannot be made to the Tribunal under that section until the decision concerned has been reviewed under section 35A of this Act.

(3) Section 35A applies to the exclusion of section 53 (Internal reviews) of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal Act 1997 . For the purposes of the application of that Act to the review of any decision made under this Act, any reference to an internal review of the decision under that Act is taken to be a reference to an internal review under section 35A of this Act.