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ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1998 NO. 223

STATUTORY RULES 1998 NO. 223

Issued by the Authority of the Attorney-General

Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

Administrative Appeals Tribunal Regulations (Amendment) 1998

Subsection 70(1) of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

Paragraph 24A(4)(b) of the Act provides that the President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal shall not enter into a contract exceeding $250,000, or such higher amount as is prescribed, without the approval of the Attorney-General.

The purpose of the Regulations is to increase to $1,000,000 the amount above which ministerial approval must be sought before contracts may be entered into by the President of the Tribunal.

The current contract limit of $250,000 has applied since the courts and tribunals were granted selfadministration in 1990. Since that time, there has been a significant change in money values and the Tribunal has acquired considerable experience in managing its own affairs.

Details of the Regulations are as follows:

Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations commence on gazettal.

Regulation 2 provides that the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Regulations are amended as set out in the Regulations.

Regulation 3 inserts into the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Regulations new regulation 21, which prescribes a higher amount of $1,000,000 for the purposes of paragraph 24A(4)(b) of the Act.