New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 229

229 Application for external review

(1) An eligible person may apply to the Industrial Relations Commission for review (an
"external review" ) of--

(a) a reviewable decision made by the regulator, or

(b) a decision made, or taken to have been made, on an internal review.

(2) The application must be made--

(a) if the decision was to forfeit a thing (including a document), within 28 days after the day on which the decision first came to the applicant's notice, or

(b) in the case of any other decision, within 14 days after the day on which the decision first came to the applicant's notice, or

(c) if the regulator is required by the Industrial Relations Commission to give the eligible person a statement of reasons, within 14 days after the day on which the statement is provided.

(3) The Industrial Relations Commission may stay the operation of a decision that is the subject of an external review pending a decision on the review.

(4) The Industrial Relations Commission may, on an external review, confirm, vary or revoke the decision concerned.