Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL MANAGEMENT (CATS AND DOGS) ACT 2008 - SECT 186

186 Other internal review decisions

(1) The chief executive officer of a local government must, within 20 days after receiving a general review application made under section 183 —

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

(b) make a decision (the
"internal 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 officer of the local government personally.

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

(5) If the internal 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 internal review decision.