Victorian Current Acts

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW ACT 1978 - SECT 2

In this Act unless the context or subject-matter otherwise requires—

"decision" means a decision operating in law to determine a question affecting the rights of any person or to grant, deny, terminate, suspend or alter a privilege or licence and includes a refusal or failure to perform a duty or to exercise a power to make such a decision;

"person affected" in relation to a decision, means a person whether or not a party to proceedings, whose interest (being an interest that is greater than the interest of other members of the public) is or will or may be affected, directly or indirectly, to a substantial degree by a decision which has been made or is to be made or ought to have been made by the tribunal;

S. 2 def. of tribunal substituted by No. 67/2014 s. 147(Sch.  2 item 1).

"tribunal" means a person or body of persons who, in arriving at the decision in question, is or are by law required, whether by express direction or not, to act in a judicial manner to the extent of observing one or more of the rules of natural justice, but does not include—

        (a)     a court of law or a tribunal constituted or presided over by a Judge of the Supreme Court; or

        (b)     a Royal Commission, Board of Inquiry or Formal Review within the meaning of the Inquiries Act 2014 .

S. 3 amended by No. 110/1986 s. 140(2) (Sch.).