92Consideration of applications for extension of time for lodging objections

92 Consideration of applications for extension of time for lodging objections

(1) If a person applies to the SSAT under section 91 in relation to an application for review, the SSAT Executive Director must: (a) consider the extension application; and (b) within 60 days after the extension application is received by the SSAT, grant or refuse the extension application; and (c) if the extension application is granted—deal with the application for review under this Part. (2) If the SSAT Executive Director does not make a decision on the extension application within 60 days after the extension application was made, the SSAT Executive Director is taken to have refused the extension application at the end of that period. (3) The SSAT Executive Director must give written notice of the decision granting or refusing the extension application to the person who made the extension application. (4) If the SSAT Executive Director refuses the extension application, the notice under subsection (3) must include, or be accompanied by, a statement to the effect: (a) that the person may, subject to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, apply to the AAT for review of the decision; and (b) except where subsection 28(4) of that Act applies—that the person may request a statement under section 28 of that Act. (5) A contravention of subsection (4) in relation to a decision does not affect the validity of the decision. (6) If an extension application under section 91 is granted, the person who made the application is, for the purposes of this Act, taken to have duly made the application for review under this Part to which the extension application relates. (7) A person whose extension application has been refused by the SSAT Executive Director may apply to the AAT for review of the decision. (8) In subsection (7):

decision has the same meaning as in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975.