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BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 76

Applications

  (1)   An application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of a decision of the Director of Human Biosecurity to give a direction in accordance with paragraph   72(5)(a) for an individual to comply with an isolation measure or a traveller movement measure (whether or not the direction is still in force).

Note:   For when the direction ceases to be in force, see section   73.

  (2)   Despite paragraph   29(1)(d) of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 , the application must be made within 7 business days after the day the decision is made.

Applications to cover later decisions

  (3)   Subsection   (4) applies if:

  (a)   an application is made under subsection   (1) in relation to a decision (the first decision ) of the Director of Human Biosecurity to give a direction to an individual in accordance with paragraph   72(5)(a); and

  (b)   while the Administrative Appeals Tribunal is reviewing the first decision, the Director of Human Biosecurity makes a decision (the later decision ) to give another direction to the individual in accordance with that paragraph; and

  (c)   the Tribunal does not give the individual a notice under subsection   (5).

  (4)   The application that relates to the first decision is also taken to have been made in relation to the later decision for the following purposes:

  (a)   the purposes of this Subdivision, other than subsections   77(2) and 78(1);

  (b)   the purposes of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 .

  (5)   The Administrative Appeals Tribunal may give a notice to the individual requiring the individual to make a separate application in relation to the later decision if the Tribunal is satisfied that it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.


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