sec.78LTransfer of amendment application

### sec.78L Transfer of amendment application An agency to which an amendment application has been made (the original agency ) may transfer the application to another agency if— the document to which the application relates is not in the original agency’s possession but is, to the original agency’s knowledge, in the other agency’s possession; and the other agency consents to the transfer. An application that is transferred from 1 agency to another agency is taken to have been made to the other agency. If an application is made to an agency for amendment of 2 or more documents, at least 1 of which is a document mentioned in subsection (1) (a) , this section applies to each of the documents as if separate amendment applications had been made to the agency for each of the documents. In this section— agency includes a Minister. amendment application includes a purported amendment application. s 78L ins 2023 No. 32 s 105 (sec.78L-ssec.1) An agency to which an amendment application has been made (the original agency ) may transfer the application to another agency if— the document to which the application relates is not in the original agency’s possession but is, to the original agency’s knowledge, in the other agency’s possession; and the other agency consents to the transfer. (sec.78L-ssec.2) An application that is transferred from 1 agency to another agency is taken to have been made to the other agency. (sec.78L-ssec.3) If an application is made to an agency for amendment of 2 or more documents, at least 1 of which is a document mentioned in subsection (1) (a) , this section applies to each of the documents as if separate amendment applications had been made to the agency for each of the documents. (sec.78L-ssec.4) In this section— agency includes a Minister. amendment application includes a purported amendment application. - (a) the document to which the application relates is not in the original agency’s possession but is, to the original agency’s knowledge, in the other agency’s possession; and - (b) the other agency consents to the transfer.