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Repatriation Acts Amendment Act 1979

No. 18 of 1979

An Act relating to repatriation and related matters.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Repatriation Acts Amendment Act 1979.

Commencement
2. (1) Sections 1, 2 and 3, paragraph 4(a) and section 26 shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
(2) The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into operation on 1 July 1979.

PART II—AMENDMENTS OF THE REPATRIATION ACT 1920

Principal Act
3. The Repatriation Act 1920 is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.

Interpretation
4. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended—
    (a) by adding at the end of sub-section (1) the following definition:
         "'Tribunal' means the Repatriation Review Tribunal established by section 107vb."; and
    (b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:
         "(3) In this Act—
        (a) a reference to a period of 3 months after the service on a person, in accordance with section 47a, of a copy of a decision of the Commission or a Board;
        (b) a reference to a period of 3 months after the service on a person, in accordance with section 107vk, of a copy of a decision of the Tribunal; or
        (c) a reference to a period of 3 months after the service on a person, in accordance with sub-section (3) of section 43 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, of a copy of a decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal,
    shall, in relation to a person who was at any time during that period of 3 months a resident of the Torres Strait Islands, be read as including a further period of 3 months commencing on the expiration of that first period of 3 months.".

Boards to consult and co-operate with Commission
5. Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (b) of sub-section (2) and substituting the following paragraph:
    "(b) statements of principles governing decisions of the Repatriation Review Tribunal, being principles deduced by the Commission from—
        (i) statements of reasons for decisions of that Tribunal prepared in accordance with sub-section (1) of section 107vk; or
        (ii) statements of reasons for decisions of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal on reviews in accordance with directions under sub-section (8) of section 107vzzb of this Act prepared in accordance with sub-section (2) of section 43 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975; and".

6. After section 17 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Delegation by Minister
"17a. (1) The Minister may, either generally or as otherwise