Queensland Numbered Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICINAL CANNABIS) ACT 2016 - SECT 33

33 Failure to decide application

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), the chief executive is taken to have refused to grant an application for an approval if the chief executive fails to decide the application—

(a) for an original application for an approval—within 90 days after the chief executive receives the application; or

(b) for a renewal application for an approval—within 30 days after the chief executive receives the application; or

(c) for another application for an approval—within 60 days after the chief executive receives the application.

(2) If the chief executive has given the applicant an information requirement notice, a period mentioned in subsection (1) starts from the day the chief executive receives the information required under the information requirement notice.

(3) If the chief executive has extended the period for deciding the application for the approval under section , the chief executive is taken to have refused to grant the application if the chief executive does not decide the application within the extended period.

(4) If the chief executive is, under this section, taken to have refused to grant an application, the chief executive must give the applicant for the application an information notice for the deemed refusal.