Victorian Consolidated Regulations

VICTORIAN CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL RULES 2018 - REG 4.35

    (1)     For the purposes of section 132 of the Act, a party to a proceeding, or a person intending to commence a proceeding, may apply to the principal registrar for the reduction, waiver, postponement, remission or refund of—

        (a)     a fee paid or payable under the Act or the regulations; or

        (b)     a fee or charge for services provided by the Tribunal of a kind not referred to in paragraph (a).

    (2)     If an application referred to in subrule (1) is an application for the reduction, waiver, postponement, remission or refund of a fee or charge on the grounds of hardship, the applicant must be a natural person.

    (3)     The application for the reduction, waiver, postponement, remission or refund of a fee or charge must be in the form provided on the website of the Tribunal.

    (4)     An applicant must provide any additional information in relation to an application for reduction, waiver, postponement, remission or refund of a fee or charge paid or payable if requested to do so by the principal registrar or a registrar.

    (5)     If an application for the reduction, waiver, postponement, remission or refund of a fee or charge paid or payable is rejected in whole or in part by a registrar, the applicant may apply to the principal registrar for review of that determination.

    (6)     In considering an application for review under subrule (5), the principal registrar—

        (a)     may request the applicant to provide any additional information in relation to an application; and

        (b)     must either—

              (i)     affirm the determination of the registrar; or

              (ii)     make a determination reducing, waiving, postponing, remitting or refunding the fee or charge paid or payable in substitution of the determination of the registrar.

Order 5 Pt 1 (Heading and rules 5.01–5.04) revoked by S.R. No. 58/2019 rule 7.

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