PART VI
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MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 68
GIVING DOCUMENTS
68(1)
A document or thing that is required or permitted by this Act or another enactment to be lodged with, or given to, the Tribunal must be lodged or given in accordance with:
(a)
any direction under section
18B
; or
(b)
regulations made under this Act or the other enactment.
68(2)
A document that is required or permitted by this Act or another enactment to be given to a person for the purposes of a proceeding before the Tribunal must be given to the person in accordance with:
(a)
any direction under section
18B
; or
(b)
regulations made under this Act or the other enactment.
68(3)
A direction given under section
18B
for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) or (2)(a) must not be inconsistent with regulations in force for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) or (2)(b).
68(4)
Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to the extent to which this Act or another enactment specifies how a document or thing is to be lodged with or given to the Tribunal, or given to a person, for the purposes of a proceeding before the Tribunal.
History
S 68 substituted by No 132 of 2015, s 3 and Sch 1 item 5, effective 14 October 2015. No 132 of 2015, s 3 and Sch 1 item 6 contains the following savings provision:
6 Savings provision
The amendment of section
68
of the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975
made by this Schedule does not affect a direction or regulation in force for the purposes of section
68
immediately before the commencement of the amendment.
S 68 formerly read:
SECTION 68 GIVING DOCUMENTS
68(1)
A document or thing that is required or permitted by this Act or another enactment to be lodged with or given to the Tribunal must be lodged or given:
(a)
in the manner prescribed by regulations made under this Act or the other enactment; or
(b)
if those regulations do not prescribe a manner
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in accordance with any direction under section
18B
.
68(2)
A document that is required or permitted by this Act or another enactment to be given to a person for the purposes of a proceeding before the Tribunal must be given to the person:
(a)
in the manner prescribed by regulations made under this Act or the other enactment; or
(b)
if those regulations do not prescribe a manner
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in accordance with any direction under section
18B
.
68(3)
Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to the extent to which this Act or another enactment specifies how a document or thing is to be lodged with or given to the Tribunal, or given to a person, for the purposes of a proceeding before the Tribunal.
S 68 substituted by No 60 of 2015, s 3 and Sch 1 item 149, effective 1 July 2015. For transitional and saving provisions, see note under the title of the Act. S 68 formerly read:
SECTION 68 LODGING OF DOCUMENTS
68(1)
Where a document is required by this Act to be lodged with the Tribunal, the document shall be lodged at a registry of the Tribunal.
History
S 68(1) amended by No 175 of 1995.
68(2)
Subject to such requirements (if any) as are prescribed, such documents may be lodged by means of electronic transfer.
History
S 68(2) inserted by No 31 of 1993.