Statutory Rules 1988 No. 174¹

Bounty (Ship Repair) (Reservation of
Bounty) Regulations² (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Bounty (Ship Repair) Act 1986.

Dated 30 June 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

BARRY O. JONES

Minister of State for Science, Customs and

Small Business

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Commencement

      1.   Regulation 2 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 15 June 1987.

      2.   After regulation 8 of the Bounty (Ship Repair) (Reservation of Bounty) Regulations the following regulations are inserted:

Application for review

      “8A.   (1) Applications may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of:

         (a)   a decision of the Comptroller under subregulation 6 (1) to refuse an application made under regulation 4; or

         (b)   a decision of the Comptroller under subregulation 8 (1) to cancel the reservation of an amount of bounty.

       “(2)   In this regulation, ‘decision’ has the same meaning as in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975.”.

Notice of reviewability

      “8B.   (1) Where the Comptroller makes a decision referred to in subregulation 8A (1) and gives to the person or persons whose interests are affected by the decision notice in writing of the making of the decision, that notice shall include a statement to the effect that, subject to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of the decision to which the notice relates by or on behalf of the person or persons whose interests are affected by the decision.

       “(2)   The validity of a decision is not affected by failure to comply with subregulation (1).”.

1   Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 8 July 1988.

2   Statutory Rules 1987 No. 117.