44Failure to decide application

44 Failure to decide application (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), if the Chief Health Officer fails to decide an application under Division 1, 2 or 3 within 90 days after its receipt, the failure is taken to be a decision by the Chief Health Officer to refuse to grant the application. (2) Subsection (3) applies if the Chief Health Officer has, by notice given under section 26(1) or 33(3), required the applicant to give the Chief Health Officer further documents or information within the period stated in the notice. (3) The Chief Health Officer is taken to have refused to grant the application if the Chief Health Officer does not decide the application within 90 days after the end of the period stated in the notice.

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