Bill
Tribunals Amalgamation Bill 2015
passed, as at 2015-05-26. Attorney-General portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Attorney-General
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-12-03
- second reading — 2014-12-03
- second reading — 2015-05-11
- second reading — 2015-05-11
- committee — 2015-05-11
- third reading — 2015-05-11
- introduced — 2015-05-12
- second reading — 2015-05-13
- second reading — 2015-05-13
- second reading — 2015-05-13
- third reading — 2015-05-13
- passed — 2015-05-13
- royal assent — 2015-05-26
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-12-03.
This bill would merge several tribunals into one by changing the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act.
It would set up a new governance structure, streamline procedures, and modernise the law, including new rules for divisions, appointments, and reviews.
The bill would also change how migration and refugee reviews are handled, with most of the usual rules not applying to them.
- Provide a new objective for the combined tribunal.
- Establish the tribunal's membership, including the President, Deputy Presidents, senior members, and others, with qualifications and conditions for appointment.
- Set up divisions, assign members to them, and allow the President to make practice directions.
- Introduce procedural rules for reviews, with special arrangements for migration and refugee cases.
- Make minor changes to appeals to federal courts on legal questions.
- Modernise machinery provisions, including offences and a new publication rule for decisions.
The amalgamated Tribunal, its members, and people involved in reviews before it, especially those in migration and refugee cases.
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