Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL ACT 1975 - SECT 69B

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a person makes an application under section   54 or 83B of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 to the Tribunal for a review of a security assessment, security clearance decision or security clearance suitability assessment in respect of the person; and

  (b)   the applicant was, in the opinion of the Tribunal, successful, or substantially successful, in the application for review; and

  (c)   the Tribunal is satisfied that it is appropriate to do so in all the circumstances of the case;

the Tribunal may order that the costs reasonably incurred by the applicant in connection with the application, or any part of those costs that is determined by the Tribunal, be paid by the Commonwealth.

  (2)   For the purposes of section   69A, the Commonwealth is taken to be a party to the proceeding referred to in subsection   (1) of this section.