Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

MIGRATION REGULATIONS 1994 - REG 4.35B

  (1)   This regulation applies, for subsection   424B(4) of the Act, if:

  (a)   a person is invited to give additional information, or to comment on information, within a period prescribed in regulation   4.35; and

  (b)   the invitation is to give the information or comments other than at an interview; and

  (c)   the prescribed period is to be extended by the Tribunal.

  (2)   The period by which the Tribunal may extend the prescribed period:

  (a)   commences when the person receives notice of the extended period; and

  (b)   ends at the end of:

  (i)   14 days after the day the person receives notice of the extended period; or

  (ii)   if the person agrees, in writing, to a shorter period of not less than 1 working day--the shorter period.

  (4)   A response to the invitation is taken to be given to the Tribunal when a registry of the Tribunal receives the response.

Note 1:   If the Tribunal gives a person a document by a method specified in section   441A of the Act, the person is taken to have received the document at the time specified in section   441C of the Act in respect of the method.

Note 2:   A document given to a person in immigration detention is given in the manner specified in regulation   5.02.