12Notice of decision and review rights to be given by decision-maker

12 Notice of decision and review rights to be given by decision-maker

(1)  A decision-maker who makes a reviewable decision must take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to give any interested person notice, in writing, of the following:

(a) the decision;

(b) the right of the person to have the decision reviewed;

(c) the right of the person to make a written request to the decision-maker for a statement of the reasons for the decision.

(2)  However, a decision-maker does not have to give a notice under subsection (1) in relation to –

(a) a decision that is taken by this or any other Act to be made because the decision-maker has failed to make a decision within the time limit for making the decision; or

(b) any of the following decisions, but only if the decision concerned does not adversely affect the interests of any interested person:

(i) a decision not to impose a liability, penalty or any kind of limitation on a person;

(ii) a decision making an adjustment to the level of periodic payments to be made to a person as a member of a class of persons where a similar adjustment is being made to the level of such payments to the other members of the class;

(iii) if an enactment establishes several categories of entitlement to a monetary or other benefit, a decision that determines a person to be in the most favourable of those categories; or

(c) any other decision or class of decisions prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

(3)  A contravention of this section does not affect the validity of any decision.