Administrative Review Tribunal (Miscellaneous Measures) Act 2025 (14 of 2025)

Schedule 2   Consequential amendments

Part 1   Attorney-General

Bankruptcy Act 1966

3   After subsection 149N(2)

Insert:

(2A) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), a decision of the Tribunal becomes final:

(a) if no application to refer the decision of the Tribunal to the guidance and appeals panel is made within the period for making the application - at the end of that period; or

(b) if an application is made to refer the decision of the Tribunal to the guidance and appeals panel within the period for making the application - when:

(i) the application is refused; or

(ii) the decision of the Tribunal on the guidance and appeals panel application is given.

(2B) For the purposes of subsection (2A), the period for making an application to refer a decision of the Tribunal to the guidance and appeals panel includes any extension of that period under section 125 of the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024.