### sec.343 Failure to approve application taken to be refusal If the administering authority fails to decide whether to approve or refuse to approve an application for the issue of a transitional environmental program within the time it is required to make a decision on the application, the failure is taken to be a decision by the authority to refuse to approve the application at the end of the time. s 343 amd 2007 No. 56 s 6 sch ; 2023 No. 6 s 73

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