New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL ASSISTANCE ACT 1989 - SECT 45

45 Repeated applications

(1) If:

(a) a person makes an application to the Authority which is refused, and

(b) the person makes a subsequent application to the Authority which is not substantially different from and has no greater merit than the application referred to in paragraph (a),

the Authority may, if the Minister consents in writing to the Authority so doing, serve on the person a notice stating that the Authority will not deal with any further application made by the person unless the person pays to the Authority such expenses with respect to that further application as may be required to be paid by the Authority.

(2) If the Authority has served on a person a notice under this section, the Authority is not obliged to consider any further application made to it by the person unless the amount required to be paid to the Authority under this section in respect of the further application has been paid.

(3) If any such further application is refused or granted and the Authority is of the opinion that the further application is substantially different from or has greater merit than the application made by that person and referred to in subsection (1) (a), the Authority shall refund to that person the expenses paid.