Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person who is affected by a reviewable decision of the Regulator may, if dissatisfied with the decision, request the Regulator to reconsider the decision.
(2) The request must be made by written notice given to the Regulator within the period of 21 days after the day on which the person first receives notice of the decision, or within such further period as the Regulator allows.
(3) The request must set out the reasons for making the request.
Regulator to reconsider decision
(4) Upon receipt of the request, the Regulator must reconsider the decision and may, subject to subsection (5), confirm or revoke the decision or vary the decision in such manner as the Regulator thinks fit.
Deemed confirmation of decision if delay
(5) If the Regulator does not confirm, revoke or vary a decision before the end of the period of 60 days after the day on which the Regulator received the request under subsection (1) to reconsider the decision, the Regulator is taken, at the end of that period, to have confirmed the decision under subsection (4).
Notice of Regulator's action
(6) If the Regulator confirms, revokes or varies a decision before the end of the period referred to in subsection (5), the Regulator must give written notice to the person telling the person:
(a) the result of the reconsideration of the decision; and
(b) the reasons for confirming, varying or revoking the decision, as the case may be.
Notice to Commissioner of Taxation
(7) If the Regulator gives a notice to a person under subsection (6) telling the person that a decision under section 40 has been revoked or varied, the Regulator must give to the Commissioner of Taxation particulars of the notice.
AAT review of Regulator's decisions
(8) Applications may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of decisions of the Regulator that have been confirmed or varied under subsection (4).
Period for making certain AAT applications
(9) If a decision is taken to be confirmed because of subsection (5), section 29 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 applies as if the prescribed time for making application for review of the decision were the period of 28 days beginning on the day on which the decision is taken to be confirmed.
Section 41 of AAT Act
(10) If a request is made under subsection (1) in respect of a reviewable decision, section 41 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 applies as if the making of the request were the making of an application to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of that decision.
Only trustees affected by certain reviewable decisions
(12) For the purposes of this section and section 345, a
person is taken not to be affected by a reviewable decision (other than a
reviewable decision covered by paragraph (dd), (de), (df), (dg), (dl),
(dm), (dn), (doa), (dob), (dod), (q), (qa), (qb), (r), (ra), (rb), (rc), (rd),
(re), (rf), (rg), (rh), (ri), (s), (t), (ua) or (ub) of the definition of
reviewable decision in section 10) unless the person is a trustee of a
superannuation entity that is affected by the decision.