Biosecurity Regulation 2017

The period within which an accreditation authority is required to give an applicant notice of a decision to grant or refuse accreditation or a renewal of accreditation before the application is taken to have been refused is 60 days after the application is made.

However, the following periods are not to be counted towards that period of 60 days—

any period commencing on the day on which the accreditation authority has, in writing, requested additional information from the applicant until the day on which that information is provided,

any period commencing on the day on which the applicant is notified in writing of a decision to require an accreditation audit of the application until the day on which the biosecurity auditor engaged to carry out the audit provides the report of the auditor’s assessment to the person who required the audit.