Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Administrative Law Act 1978 - SECT 2

Definitions

2. Definitions

In this Act unless the context or subject-matter otherwise requires-

decision means a decision operating in law to determine a question affecting
the rights of any person or to grant, deny, terminate, suspend or alter a
privilege or licence and includes a refusal or failure to perform a duty or to
exercise a power to make such a decision;

person affected in relation to a decision, means a person whether or not a
party to proceedings, whose interest (being an interest that is greater than
the interest of other members of the public) is or will or may be affected,
directly or indirectly, to a substantial degree by a decision which has been
made or is to be made or ought to have been made by the tribunal;

tribunal means a person or body of persons (not being a court of law or a
tribunal constituted or presided over by a Judge of the Supreme Court) who, in
arriving at the decision in question, is or are by law required, whether by
express direction or not, to act in a judicial manner to the extent of
observing one or more of the rules of natural justice.