Part 6Reviews

Part 6—Reviews 55—Reviews by Minister (1) Subject to subsection (5), a person who is aggrieved by a decision of an authorised officer under Part 5 is entitled to apply to the Minister for a review of the decision. (2) An application for review of a decision must— (a) be in writing and made in the manner specified by the Minister on a website determined by the Minister; and (b) specify an email address or other address in Australia to which notices or other documents under this Act should be sent; and (c) be made within 30 days after the day on which notice of the decision was given to the applicant or within such further time as the Minister may allow. (3) On an application for review under this section, the Minister may confirm, vary or reverse the decision under review. (4) The making of an application for review of a decision under this section does not affect the operation of the decision or prevent the taking of action to implement the decision. (5) The regulations may prescribe classes of decisions to which this section does not apply. 56—Reviews by SACAT (1) Subject to subsection (5), SACAT is, by force of this section, conferred with jurisdiction to deal with matters consisting of the review of a decision of the Minister under this Act. (2) An application for review may be made to SACAT— (a) in relation to a decision of the Minister— (i) to confirm the decision of an authorised officer to issue a seizure notice under section 46; or (ii) to issue a forfeiture notice under section 47; or (iii) to sell, rehome or destroy (or arrange for the destruction of) a seized animal under section 48, within 14 days after the making of the relevant decision; or (b) in any other case—subject to subsection (4), within 30 days after the making of the relevant decision (or such longer period as SACAT may allow). (3) The Minister must, if so required by any person affected by a decision, state in writing the reasons for that decision. (4) If the reasons of the Minister were not given in writing at the time of making a decision and a person affected by the decision requires (within 30 days of the making of the decision) the Minister to state the reasons in writing, the time for making the application for review to SACAT runs from the time at which the person receives the written statement of those reasons. (5) The regulations may prescribe classes of decisions to which this section does not apply. (6) In this section— forfeiture notice has the same meaning as in section 47; seizure notice has the same meaning as in section 46. 57—Reviews of decisions of animal ethics committees (1) Subject to this section, SACAT is, by force of this section, conferred with jurisdiction to deal with matters consisting of the review of a decision of an animal ethics committee under Part 4. (2) An application for review may be made to SACAT within 30 days after the making of the relevant decision (or such longer period as SACAT may allow). (3) Before SACAT makes a decision on the review, a prescribed committee (if any) must investigate the decision under review and furnish SACAT with a report on its investigations for consideration by SACAT.