Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL MANAGEMENT (CATS AND DOGS) ACT 2008 - SECT 185

185 Designated review decision

(1) The chief executive must, within 20 days after receiving a designated review application made under section 182 —

(a) conduct an internal review of the original decision the subject of the application; and

(b) make a decision (the
"designated review decision" ) to—

(i) confirm the original decision; or

(ii) amend the original decision; or

(iii) substitute another decision for the original decision.

(2) The application must not be dealt with by—

(a) the person who made the original decision; or

(b) a person in a less senior office than the person who made the original decision.

(3) Subsection (2) —

(a) applies despite the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , section 27A ; and

(b) does not apply to an original decision made by the chief executive personally.

(4) If the designated review decision confirms the original decision, for the purpose of an application for external review, the original decision is taken to be the designated review decision.

(5) If the designated review decision amends the original decision, for the purpose of an application for external review, the original decision as amended is taken to be the designated review decision.