Queensland Consolidated Acts

QUEENSLAND CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2009 - SECT 158

158 Obtaining statement of reasons

(1) This section applies if a person who may apply to the tribunal for a review of a reviewable decision has not been given a written statement of the reasons for the decision.

(2) The person may ask the decision-maker for the reviewable decision to give the person a written statement of the reasons for the decision.

(3) The request must be—

(a) in writing, whether by letter, facsimile or email; and

(b) made within 14 days after the person—

(i) was notified of the decision; or

(ii) is, under an enabling Act, taken to have been given notice of the decision by publication of the decision in the gazette, a newspaper or in another way; or

(iii) if subparagraph (i) or (ii) does not apply—the day the person became aware of the decision.

(4) The decision-maker must give the person the statement within a reasonable period of not more than 28 days after the request is made.

Note—

See the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , section 27B (Content of statement of reasons for decision).

(5) The person is entitled to receive a written statement of reasons for the reviewable decision whether or not the provision of the enabling Act under which the decision is made requires that the person be given a written statement of reasons for the decision.