Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00492:section:44:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00492
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 44 (pt 1/41)
Character Range: 779489–782346

44                    To refuse a claim of entitlement to be paid money that is unclaimed property etc.                                                                                                                          subsection 551‑15(2)

617‑5  Deadlines for making reviewable decisions
  If:
 (a) this Act provides for a person to apply to the Registrar to make a reviewable decision; and
 (b) a period is specified under this Act for giving notice of the decision to the applicant; and
 (c) the Registrar has not notified the applicant of the Registrar's decision within that period;
the Registrar is taken, for the purposes of this Act, to have made a decision to reject the application.

617‑10  Notice of reviewable decision and review rights
 (1) This section applies to a person (the decision maker) who:
 (a) makes a reviewable decision; or
 (b) reviews a reviewable decision under Division 620 of this Part.
 (2) Subject to subsection (3), the decision maker must take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to give to each person whose interests are affected by the decision notice, in writing or otherwise:
 (a) of the making of the decision; and
 (b) of the person's right to have the decision reviewed under this Part.
 (3) Subsection (2) does not require the decision maker to give notice to a person affected by the decision or to the persons in a class of persons affected by the decision, if the decision maker determines that giving notice to the person or persons is not warranted, having regard to:
 (a) the cost of giving notice to the person or persons; and
 (b) the way in which the interests of the person or persons are affected by the decision.
 (4) A failure to comply with this section does not affect the validity of the decision.
 (5) The fact that a person has not been given notice of the decision because of a determination under subsection (3) constitutes special circumstances for the purposes of subsection 20(2) of the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024.

Division 620—Internal review of reviewable decisions

620‑1  Registrar may reconsider reviewable decisions on own initiative
 (1) The Registrar may, on his or her own initiative, reconsider a reviewable decision if the Registrar is satisfied that there is sufficient reason to reconsider the decision.
 (2) The Registrar may reconsider a decision even if:
 (a) an application for reconsideration of the decision has been made under section 620‑5; or
 (b) if the decision has been affirmed, varied or set aside under section 620‑5—an application has been made under section 623‑1 for review of the decision.
 (3) After reconsidering the decision, the Registrar must:
 (a) affirm the decision; or
 (b) vary the decision; or
 (c) set the decision aside and substitute a new decision.
 (4) The Registrar's decision (the decision on review) to