Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

PART 7 - ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS  

Division 4 - Review of decisions  

SECTION 130M   COSTS  

130M(1)    
If:

(a)    a person makes an application to the Tribunal under section 130A for a review of a reviewable decision; and

(b)    the applicant was, in the opinion of the Tribunal, successful, or substantially successful, in the application for review; and

(c)    the Tribunal is satisfied that it is appropriate to do so in all the circumstances of the case;

the Tribunal may order that the costs reasonably incurred by the applicant in connection with the application, or any of those costs that is determined by the Tribunal, be paid by the Commonwealth.

Interaction with the ART Act

130M(2)    

For the purposes of section 115 of the ART Act, the Commonwealth is taken to be a party to the proceeding referred to in subsection (1) of this section.