Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN ACQUISITIONS AND TAKEOVERS ACT 1975 - SECT 130M

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a person makes an application to the Tribunal under section   130A for a review of a reviewable decision; and

  (b)   the applicant was, in the opinion of the Tribunal, successful, or substantially successful, in the application for review; and

  (c)   the Tribunal is satisfied that it is appropriate to do so in all the circumstances of the case;

the Tribunal may order that the costs reasonably incurred by the applicant in connection with the application, or any of those costs that is determined by the Tribunal, be paid by the Commonwealth.

Interaction with the ART Act

  (2)   For the purposes of section   115 of the ART Act, the Commonwealth is taken to be a party to the proceeding referred to in subsection   (1) of this section.