Radiation Safety Act 1999

Subject to subsections (2) and (3), if the chief executive fails to decide the application within 90 days after its receipt, the failure is taken to be a decision by the chief executive to refuse to grant the application.

Subsection (3) applies if—

a person has made an application for an Act instrument; and

the chief executive has—

under section 61(1)(b), required the applicant to give the chief executive further information or a document; or

under section 61(1)(c), required the applicant to undergo an examination.

The chief executive is taken to have refused to grant the application if the chief executive does not decide the application by the later of the following days—

the day that is 90 days after the chief executive receives the further information or document;

the day that is 90 days after the chief executive receives the results of the examination.

If the application is an application for a licence, this section is subject to section 64.