New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL RESEARCH ACT 1985 - SECT 39

39 Determination of applications

(1) After considering the Panel’s report on an application, the Director-General shall determine the application:

(a) by granting a licence to the applicant, either unconditionally or subject to conditions, or

(b) by refusing to grant a licence to the applicant.

(2) Despite subsection (1), the Director-General is not to grant an animal supplier’s licence to an applicant:

(a) if the applicant does not have a duly constituted animal care and ethics committee, or

(b) if the applicant is a disqualified individual or a disqualified corporation.

(3) Where the Director-General refuses to grant a licence, the Director-General shall, as soon as practicable after so refusing, cause notice of the refusal, and of the reasons for the refusal, to be served on the applicant for the licence.

(4) If, at the expiration of 90 days after an application has been made, the Director-General has failed to determine the application, the Director-General is, for the purposes only of any application for review to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal, taken to have refused to grant a licence to the applicant.