Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00856:section:3:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00856
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 3/5)
Character Range: 9022–11438

to a person whose interests are adversely affected by the decision; or
 (ii) in the case of a decision by way of the making of a report or recommendation—to a person whose interests would be adversely affected if a decision were, or were not, made in accordance with the report or recommendation; and
 (b) a reference to a person aggrieved by conduct that has been, is being, or is proposed to be, engaged in for the purpose of making a decision or by a failure to make a decision includes a reference to a person whose interests are or would be adversely affected by the conduct or failure.
 (5) A reference in this Act to conduct engaged in for the purpose of making a decision includes a reference to the doing of any act or thing preparatory to the making of the decision, including the taking of evidence or the holding of an inquiry or investigation.
 (6) A document or a statement that is required by this Act to be furnished to a person or a notice that is required by this Act to be given to a person may be posted to the person by a pre‑paid letter:
 (a) where the person has furnished an address at which documents may be served—to that address; or
 (b) where no such address has been furnished:
 (i) in the case of a person not being a company—to the address of his or her place of residence or business last known to the person posting the document, statement or notice; or
 (ii) in the case of a company—to the address of the registered office of the company;
and, if a document, statement or notice is so posted, then, for the purposes of this Act, the document or statement shall be deemed to be furnished, or the notice shall be deemed to be given, as the case may be, at the time when the document, statement or notice is so posted.
 (7) A reference in a Schedule to this Act to another Act (including an Act of a State, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory) or a provision of another Act shall be read as including a reference to regulations or by‑laws in force under that other Act or for the purposes of that provision, as the case may be.
 (7A) If an Act of a State, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory, or a part of such an Act, described in Schedule 3 applies all or part of another enactment or instrument as a law of the State or Territory, that other enactment or instrument, as so applying, is taken for the purposes of this Act to be included