ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS REVIEW ACT 1997 - SECT 49 Duty of administrator to give reasons on request

ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS REVIEW ACT 1997 - SECT 49

49 Duty of administrator to give reasons on request

(1) If an administrator makes an administratively reviewable decision, an interested person may make a written request to the administrator for the reasons for the decision.

(2) As soon as practicable (and in any event within 28 days) after receiving such a request, the administrator is to prepare a written statement of reasons for the decision and provide it to the person who requested the reasons.

(3) The statement of reasons is to set out the following:

(a) the findings on material questions of fact, referring to the evidence or other material on which those findings were based,

(b) the administrator's understanding of the applicable law,

(c) the reasoning processes that led the administrator to the conclusions the administrator made.

(4) The regulations may:

(a) exclude any class of administratively reviewable decisions from the application of this section, or

(b) alter the period within which a statement of reasons under this section must be given.