New South Wales Consolidated Acts

EXHIBITED ANIMALS PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 27

27 Applications

(1) An application for the issue, renewal or variation of an authority shall be made to the Director-General in the prescribed manner and accompanied by the prescribed fee.

(2) An application for the transfer of a licence shall be made to the Director-General in the prescribed manner and accompanied by the prescribed fee.

(3) The application shall be considered by the Director-General who may grant or refuse the application.

(4) Where the application has not been granted or refused:

(a) within the period of 60 days after the making of the application, or

(b) within such longer period as may be agreed between the Director-General and the applicant,

the application shall be deemed (for the purposes only of any appeal) to have been refused.

(5) Where the application is granted, a licence, an approval or a permit, as the case may require, shall be issued by the Director-General.

(6) Where the Director-General refuses to grant an authority, 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 authority.