Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL ACT 1975 - SECT 43A

             (1)  Where:

                     (a)  a proceeding before the Tribunal has concluded; and

                     (b)  the time within which an appeal from the decision of the Tribunal in the proceeding may be instituted, or, if that time has been extended, the period of the extension, has expired but no such appeal has been instituted;

the President may cause a document or any other object given to the Tribunal for the purposes of the proceeding to be returned to the person by whom it was given.

             (2)  Where the Federal Court of Australia or the Federal Magistrates Court causes a document sent to the court in accordance with paragraph 46(1)(a) or (c) in connexion with a proceeding before the court to be returned to the Tribunal, the President may cause the document to be returned to the person by whom it was given to the Tribunal.