26Period for making a decision on a permit application—default period

26 Period for making a decision on a permit application—default period

(1) If the Minister receives an application for a special transit permit, the Minister must decide whether to grant the permit within the period of 30 days starting after the day the competent authority of the OECD country from which the waste is to be exported gives the Minister written notification of the export (the decision period).

Note: This period may be paused or extended under regulation 11, 28 or 28A.

(2) If the Minister has not decided whether to grant the permit by the end of the decision period, the Minister is to be taken to have decided, on the last day of that period, to grant the permit.