Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FUEL QUALITY STANDARDS ACT 2000 - SECT 70

  (1)   An application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of the following decisions under this Act:

  (a)   a decision to refuse to grant an approval;

  (b)   a decision to grant an approval that is different from the approval applied for;

  (c)   a decision to specify a condition in an approval;

  (d)   a decision to vary or revoke an approval;

  (da)   a decision to refuse to vary an approval, other than a decision to refuse to vary an approval under section   17F;

  (e)   a decision to enter, or not to enter, a fuel additive, or a class of fuel additives, in the Register;

  (f)   a decision to remove, or not to remove, a fuel additive, or a class of fuel additives, from the Register.

  (2)   For the purposes of an application to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal under this section, the meaning of the term person whose interests are affected in section   27 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 is extended by subsections   (3) and (4) of this section.

  (3)   An individual is taken to be a person whose interests are affected by a decision mentioned in subsection   (1) if:

  (a)   the individual is an Australian citizen or ordinarily resident in Australia; and

  (b)   at any time in the 2 years immediately before the decision mentioned in subsection   (1), the individual has engaged in a series of activities in Australia for protection or conservation of, or research into, the environment.

  (4)   An organisation or association (whether incorporated or not) is taken to be a person whose interests are affected by a decision mentioned in subsection   (1) if:

  (a)   the organisation or association is incorporated, or was otherwise established, in Australia; and

  (b)   at any time in the 2 years immediately before the decision mentioned in subsection   (1), the organisation or association has engaged in a series of activities in Australia for protection or conservation of, or research into, the environment; and

  (c)   at the time of the decision mentioned in subsection   (1), the objects or purposes of the organisation or association included protection or conservation of, or research into, the environment.