Queensland Consolidated Acts

FARM BUSINESS DEBT MEDIATION ACT 2017 - SECT 81

81 Reviewing original decision

(1) The chief executive officer must, within 30 business days after receiving an application for internal review of an original decision—

(a) review the original decision; 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; and

(c) give a notice (the
"review notice" ) advising of the internal review decision to the applicant.

(1A) If the original decision is not an accreditation decision, the chief executive officer may, at any time, extend the period for making the internal review decision and giving the review notice.

(2) The application may be dealt with only by a person who—

(a) did not make the original decision; and

(b) holds a more senior office than the person who made the original decision.

(3) Subsection (2) —

(a) does not apply to an original decision made personally by the chief executive officer; and

(b) applies despite the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , section 27A .

(4) If the internal review decision confirms the original decision, the original decision is taken to be the internal review decision.

(5) If the internal review decision amends the original decision, the original decision as amended is taken to be the internal review decision.

(5A) Subsections (6) and (7) apply if the original decision is an accreditation decision.

(6) If the internal review decision is not the decision sought by the applicant, the review notice must comply with the QCAT Act , section 157 (2) .

(7) If the chief executive officer does not give a review notice to the applicant within 30 business days after the application for internal review is made, the chief executive officer is taken to have made an internal review decision that confirms the original decision.