Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

LANDS ACQUISITION ACT 1994 - SECT 24

    (1)     Where the Executive receives an application for reconsideration of a pre-acquisition declaration, it shall, within 28 days after receiving the application—

        (a)     reconsider the application having regard to the reasons specified in the application and any other relevant matters; and

        (b)     by instrument in writing—

              (i)     confirm the declaration; or

              (ii)     revoke the declaration; or

              (iii)     vary the declaration.

    (2)     The Executive shall not vary the declaration in such a way that an interest in land that was not previously an interest affected (within the meaning of section 19 (9)) by the declaration becomes an interest so affected.

    (3)     The Executive's decision shall include a statement of the reasons for the decision to confirm, revoke or vary the declaration.

    (4)     The person who made the application may, by writing and before the end of the period of 28 days referred to in subsection (1), agree to an extension of that period.