Administrative Review Tribunal and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025

Committee: Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee
Date referred: 04 September 2025
Submissions close: TBC
Reporting date: 24 November 2025

On 4 September 2025, the Senate referred the Administrative Review Tribunal and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by Monday, 24 November 2025.

The Administrative Review Tribunal and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 would amend the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024 to expand the circumstances in which the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) may make a decision without holding an oral hearing. The Bill would also amend the Migration Act 1958 to require the ART to make decisions in relation to applications for review of certain kinds of reviewable migration decisions without conducting an oral hearing.

 

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