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the Principal Act.

90. After section 15 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Review by Administrative Appeals Tribunal
"15a. (1) Where the Director-General has, on or after 9 September 1980 in pursuance of section 14 or 15, made a decision affirming, varying or annulling a determination, direction, decision or approval of an officer, being a determination, direction, decision or approval that has been reviewed by a Social Security Appeals Tribunal, then, subject to section 29 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, an application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of the decision of the Director-General.
"(2) Where—
     (a) the Director-General has, on or after 9 September 1980, in pursuance of section 14 or 15, made a decision affirming, varying or annulling a determination, direction, decision or approval of an officer, being a determination, direction, decision or approval that has not been reviewed by a Social Security Appeals Tribunal; and
     (b) the decision of the Director-General is one in respect of which the Director-General has, at the request of a person, certified in writing that an important principle of general application is involved with respect to entitlement to, or assessment of, a pension, allowance, entitlement or benefit under this Act or with respect to the operation of those provisions of the Health Insurance Act 1973 that relate to disadvantaged persons,
an application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of the decision of the Director-General.
"(3) A reference in sub-sections (1) and (2) to a decision of an officer shall be read as including a reference to a decision referred to in section 5f of the Health Insurance Act 1973.
"(4) Where, immediately before the date of commencement of this section, a person was entitled by virtue of sub-clause 24a (3) of the Schedule to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 to make an application to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of a decision by the Director-General, then, subject to section 29 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, that person may, on or after that date, apply to the Tribunal for review of that decision.
"(5) The operation of sub-section 29 (2) of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 in relation to an application under sub-section (2) of this section for review of a decision is modified so that the prescribed time for the

purposes of paragraph 29 (1) (d) of that Act is the period commencing on the day on which the decision was or is made and ending on the twenty-eighth day after—
     (a) if the decision sets out the findings on material questions of fact and the reasons for the decision—the day (in this