32Decisions

32 Decisions

(1) This section applies if the Director of Biosecurity makes a decision under any of the following provisions (the relevant provision) in relation to an application: (a) subsection 12(3); (b) subsection 15(2); (c) subsection 25(3). (2) The Director of Biosecurity must make the decision and give the written notice to the applicant under relevant provision before the end of 28 days after the application for the decision was made. (3) If the Director of Biosecurity does not do so within that 28‑day period, the Director is taken to have refused the application at the end of that period. Director of Biosecurity may require further information (4) The Director of Biosecurity may, by written notice, require a person who has made an application referred to in subsection (1) to give the Director information about the application. (5) If a notice is given under subsection (4): (a) the 28‑day period referred to in subsection (2) stops on the day the notice is given; and (b) that period begins again on the day after the information is given to the Director of Biosecurity.