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HERITAGE ACT 1977 - SECT 65 Effect of failure to make determination

HERITAGE ACT 1977 - SECT 65

Effect of failure to make determination

65 Effect of failure to make determination

(1) Where the approval body has not determined an application for approval (other than an application for approval in respect of integrated development) within a period of 40 days, or, where public notice of that application has been given under section 61, within a period of 60 days, after service of that application on it, it shall, for the purposes only of section 70, be deemed to have determined that application by refusing approval.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) prevents the approval body from determining an application after the expiration of the period referred to in subsection (1) in relation to that application.
(3) The determination of an application as referred to in subsection (2) shall not, where an appeal in respect of that application has been made under section 70, prejudice or affect the making, continuance or determination of that appeal.
(4) The regulations may prescribe periods of time that are not to be taken into account in calculating the expiration of the periods referred to in subsection (1) in circumstances where the approval body has requested the applicant to provide it with additional information relating to the application.