Queensland Numbered Acts

GUIDE, HEARING AND ASSISTANCE DOGS ACT 2009 No. 4 - SECT 71

(1) This section applies to an application under section 69 for review of a decision.

(2) Unless the chief executive made the original decision personally, the chief executive must ensure the application is not 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) Within 28 days after receiving the application, the chief executive must review the original decision and make a decision (the reviewed decision)--

(a) confirming the original decision; or

(b) amending the original decision; or

(c) substituting another decision for the original decision.

(4) Immediately after deciding the application, the chief executive must give the interested person a notice (a reviewed decision notice) stating--

(a) the reviewed decision; and

(b) the reasons for the reviewed decision; and

(c) that, within 28 days after receiving the notice, the interested person may appeal against the reviewed decision to the tribunal; and

(d) how the interested person may appeal to the tribunal.

(5) If the chief executive does not decide the application within 28 days after receiving it, the chief executive is taken to have made a reviewed decision confirming the original decision.