Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Determining Authority must, within 1 month after the day on which it receives the agreement, make a decision either ratifying or refusing to ratify the agreement.
(2) If the Authority fails to make a decision within that period, it is taken to have made, at the end of that period, a decision ratifying the agreement.
(3) The Authority must give notice in writing of its decision to the Director and the person under review within 7 days after the decision is made or taken to have been made.
(4) If the decision is to refuse to ratify the agreement, the notice must set out the reasons for the refusal.
(5) A failure to comply with subsection (3) or (4) does not affect the validity of the decision.