95Procedures on receiving applications for review

95 Procedures on receiving applications for review

Applications must be forwarded to SSAT (1) If an application for review under this Part is sent or delivered to an office of a Department or of the Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency under section 94, the Secretary of that Department or the CEO of the Agency, as the case requires, must send the application to the SSAT Executive Director: (a) as soon as practicable; and (b) in any case—not later than 7 days after the application is received at the office of that Department or Agency. SSAT must notify applicants and Registrar of receipt of applications (2) If: (a) an application for review under this Part is received by an office of the SSAT; or (b) a Secretary or the CEO sends such an application to the SSAT Executive Director in accordance with subsection (1); the SSAT Executive Director must give the applicant, the Registrar and any other party to the review written notice that the application has been received.

Note: The parties to the review are set out in section 101.

Registrar must provide information to SSAT (3) Within 28 days after receiving the notice under subsection (2), the Registrar must send to the SSAT Executive Director: (a) a statement about the decision under review that: (i) sets out the findings of fact made by the Registrar; and (ii) refers to the evidence on which those findings were based; and (iii) gives the reasons for the decision; and (b) the original or a copy of every document or part of a document that: (i) is in the possession, or under the control, of the Registrar; and (ii) is relevant to the review of the decision.

Note: The Registrar must also send copies of the statement and documents to each party (see section 96).

(4) If the SSAT Executive Director requests the Registrar to send the statement and documents referred to in subsection (3) by a day earlier than the day fixed by that subsection, the Registrar must take reasonable steps to comply with the request. (5) If: (a) after the end of the period referred to in subsection (3) but before the determination of the review, the Registrar obtains possession of a document; and (b) the Registrar considers that the document or a part of the document is relevant to the review; and (c) a copy of the document or the part of the document has not been sent to the SSAT Executive Director in accordance with subsection (3); the Registrar must send a copy of the document or the part of the document to an office of the SSAT as soon as practicable after obtaining possession of the document. (6) If the Registrar must provide the SSAT with a document under this section, the Registrar must provide the SSAT with: (a) if the SSAT Executive Director requests the Registrar to provide a specified number of copies of the document—that number of copies of the document; or (b) otherwise—2 copies of the document.