Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL MANAGEMENT (CATS AND DOGS) ACT 2008 - SECT 84

84 Deciding renewal application

(1) The relevant local government must either grant or refuse a renewal application within 21 days after the later of the following to happen—

(a) the making of the application;

(b) it receives all necessary information to decide the application.

(2) The local government must refuse the application if the applicant has been convicted of an offence against this chapter and the conviction is not a spent conviction.

(3) A regulation may provide that the application must be refused in another stated circumstance.

(4) The local government—

(a) must, in deciding the application, consider the criteria mentioned in section 76 ; and

(b) may seek further documents or information in the way mentioned in section 74 .

(5) The local government must, as soon as practicable after deciding the application—

(a) if the decision is to grant—issue the applicant with a restricted dog permit that has been renewed (a
"renewed permit" ) in the approved form; or

(b) if the decision is to refuse—give the applicant an information notice about the decision.