Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts39. Conduct of review
(1) Within 30 days after receiving an application in accordance with section 38, a public sector organisation must -
(a) subject to subsection (2), review the decision the subject of the application; and
(b) notify the applicant in writing of the outcome of the review.
(2) A public sector organisation may refuse to review a decision if satisfied that the application for review was not made within 30 days after the applicant was notified of the decision the subject of the application, in which case, the organisation is taken to have confirmed the decision.
(3) A review is to be conducted fairly and with as much expedition as a proper consideration of the matter permits.
(4) Subject to this section and section 40 -
(a) a public sector organisation is to treat an application for review as if it were an application under Division 2 (Accessing government information) or Division 3 (Correcting personal information), as the case requires; and
(b) that Division applies (with the necessary changes) accordingly.
(5) A review is not to be conducted by the officer or employee who made the decision the subject of the review.