51Determination of applications

51 Determination of applications

51 Determination of applications

(1) The Secretary may grant or refuse an application for recognition as a recognised engineering body.

(2) The Secretary must give the applicant written notice within 28 business days of making a decision to grant or refuse recognition.

(3) If the Secretary fails to give an applicant for recognition notice of a decision to grant or refuse recognition within 60 business days after the application is made, the Secretary is taken to have refused to grant recognition.

(4) In calculating a period for the purposes of subclause (3), any period from the day on which the Secretary makes a written request for further information from the applicant until the day on which the information is provided or the applicant refuses to provide the information is not to be included.

(5) Subclause (3) does not prevent the Secretary from continuing to deal with an application after the expiry of that period.

cl 51: Am 2022 (62), Sch 1[5] [6].