8APMatters for notice—applications for technical assessments etc.

#### 8AP Matters for notice—applications for technical assessments etc. (1) The APVMA must give a person a notice if: (a) the person lodges an application for the APVMA to provide an assessment of a technical nature, and the APVMA decides to provide that assessment (see regulation 8AS); or (b) the person lodges an application for the APVMA to: (i) make an interchangeable constituent determination (see regulation 19AEB); or (ii) make or vary an ingredient determination (see clause 10 of Schedule 3AA). (2) The notice must set out the following: (a) the date on which the assessment or the determination will commence; (b) if an amount of application fee payable for the application under subregulation 70(2) is unpaid: (i) the balance of the application fee that is payable; and (ii) that the balance must be paid within 28 days of the date of the notice; (c) if the applicant must give copies of the application to the APVMA: (i) the number of copies that must be given; and (ii) the form in which those copies must be given; and (iii) that the copies must be given to the APVMA within 28 days of the date of the notice; (d) the assessment period for the application and the expected date by which the application will be determined; (e) the modules to be completed in relation to the application; (f) that the assessment period will be extended if the APVMA or another prescribed authority makes a request under section 159 of the Code; (g) that if the APVMA does not determine the application within the assessment period for the application (or the extended application period, if applicable), the applicant may: (i) notify the APVMA under subsection 165(3) of the Code that the applicant wishes to treat the application as having been refused; and (ii) apply under subsection 167(1) of the Code for review of the decision; (h) that the applicant may withdraw the application in accordance with section 8D of the Code. (3) The notice must be given to the person within 1 month of the day on which the person lodges the application. (4) If a person lodges an application under regulation 8AS for the APVMA to provide an assessment of a technical nature, and the APVMA decides not to provide that assessment, the APVMA must notify the person of that decision within 1 month of the day on which the person lodges the application.