Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILDCARE REBATE ACT 1993 No. 112 of 1993 - SECT 54

54.(1) If this Act provides for a person to apply to the Commission for a
reviewable decision, the Commission must make the decision:

   (a)  within 28 days after receiving the application; or

   (b)  if the Commission has, within those 28 days, given the applicant a
        written request for further information about the application-within
        28 days after receiving that further information.

(2) The Commission is taken, for the purposes of this Division, to have made a
decision to refuse the application if it has not informed the applicant in
writing of its decision before the end of the relevant period of 28 days.

(3) In this section:

"application" includes a claim. Note: Section 27A of the Administrative
Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 requires the decision-maker to notify persons whose
interests are affected by the decision of the making of the decision and their
right to have the decision reviewed. In so notifying, the decision-maker must
have regard to the Code of Practice determined under section 27B of that Act.