Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016

An application to an assessment panel for review of a prescribed matter under this Division in a case where an assessment manager acted as a relevant authority must be made in the prescribed manner and form and must be made within 1 month after the applicant receives notice of the decision constituting the prescribed matter unless the assessment panel, in its discretion, allows an extension of time.

On an application under subsection (1)—

the assessment panel may adopt such procedure as the assessment panel thinks fit; and

the assessment panel is not bound by the rules of evidence and may inform itself as it thinks fit.

Without limiting subsection (2)—

the assessment manager must, on a request made by the assessment panel, furnish to the assessment panel any application, documents, written submissions, reports, plans, specifications or other documents lodged with, or received by, the assessment manager in relation to the matter, and any other relevant material requested by the assessment panel; and

the assessment manager must, on a request made by the assessment panel, furnish a report on any aspect of the subject‑matter of the review; and

the assessment panel may examine anything submitted under paragraph (a) and consider any report provided under paragraph (b) and draw any conclusions of fact it considers proper.

An assessment panel may, on a review under this Division—

affirm the decision being reviewed; or

vary the decision being reviewed; or

set aside the decision being reviewed and substitute its own decision, and any decision of an assessment panel will then have effect according to its terms.