169Correction of development application

169 Correction of development application (1) The territory planning authority may, on the authority’s own initiative or on application by the applicant, correct a formal error in a development application. (2) However, the territory planning authority must not make a correction if making the correction would adversely affect someone other than the applicant. (3) If the territory planning authority does not tell the applicant that the authority refuses to correct a development application by not later than 5 working days after the day the applicant asks for the correction, the authority is taken to have refused the correction. (4) If the territory planning authority corrects a development application on the authority’s own initiative, the authority must give the applicant written notice of the correction.