27Director may require further information

#### 27 Director may require further information (1) Where: (a) an application for an assessment certificate has been made under section 23 or 23A; and (b) either: (i) the notification statement accompanying the application does not contain sufficient information about a matter required under section 23; or (ii) the applicant has not included sufficient information about a matter referred to in the approved form under section 23A or 24A; the Director may give the applicant written notice requiring the applicant to give more information about the matter to the Director. (2) Where: (a) an application for an assessment certificate for a new industrial chemical has been made under section 23; and (b) the Director considers that information additional to the matters required under section 23 is necessary for the purpose of assessing the chemical and can be given by the applicant; the Director may, at any time before the assessment report on the chemical is completed, give the applicant written notice specifying the information and requiring the applicant to give the information to the Director. (3) A notice under this section must specify a period of not less than 28 days for compliance. (4) If an applicant satisfies the Director that the applicant cannot give some or all of the information required by a notice under subsection (2), the applicant is, for the purposes of subsection 31A(1), to be taken to have complied with the notice so far as it relates to that information.