12Assessment of applications

#### 12 Assessment of applications (1) The Secretary must assess applications in accordance with the assessment criteria specified for the call for applications, taking into account the overall goals expressed in the criteria as well as considering the individual applications. (1A) If a set of assessment criteria specified for a call for applications is divided into subsets, the Secretary: (a) must assess applications in accordance with the criteria in subset 1; and (b) if an application does not meet 1 or more of the criteria in subset 1, either: (i) decide not to make an offer of allocation for the application; or (ii) assess the application against the criteria in subset 2, before making a decision whether to make an offer of allocation; and (c) if the application meets the criteria in subset 1, assess the application against the criteria in subset 2, before making a decision whether to make an offer of allocation. (2) The Secretary may seek additional information from an applicant, or any other person, and may invite an applicant to vary an application. (3) The Secretary may choose any combination of dwellings from an application.