New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLANTATIONS AND REAFFORESTATION ACT 1999 - SECT 18

18 Time within which applications for authorisation to be determined

(1) The Minister is to determine an application for authorisation within the following period after receiving the application:

(a) in the case of an application that relates to a complying plantation-14 days,

(b) in any other case-40 days,

or within such longer period as is agreed to by the applicant.

(2) If an application is not determined within that period, the Minister is taken, for the purpose only of any appeal under section 24, to have refused the application. This subsection does not prevent the Minister from subsequently granting the application.

(3) A period referred to in this section does not include any period after the Minister requests further information from the applicant to determine the application and before the information is supplied to the Minister.