Community Services Act 2007

This section applies to an application under section 76 for review of a decision (the original decision).

Unless the chief executive made the original decision personally, the chief executive must ensure the application is not dealt with by—

the person who made the original decision; or

a person in a less senior office than the person who made the original decision.

Within 28 days after receiving the application, the chief executive must review the original decision and make a decision (the review decision)—

confirming the original decision; or

amending the original decision; or

substituting another decision for the original decision.

Immediately after deciding the application, the chief executive must give the interested person a notice stating the decision and the reasons for the decision.

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