Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TOBACCO ADVERTISING PROHIBITION ACT 1992 - SECT 29

             (1)  A person may apply to the Minister:

                     (a)  to have a particular class of products specified in a notice under subsection 9(5); or

                     (b)  to have a particular event specified in a notice under subsection 18(2).

             (2)  An application must be in writing and must set out the grounds on which the applicant thinks the Minister should grant it.

             (3)  If the Minister needs further information to decide an application, the Minister may ask the applicant to provide the information.

             (4)  Subject to subsections (5) to (7), the Minister must decide an application within the prescribed number of days after receiving it.

             (5)  If the Minister thinks that it will take longer to decide an application, the Minister may extend, by up to the prescribed number of days, the period for deciding it.

             (6)  An extension must be made by written notice given to the applicant within the prescribed number of days after the Minister receives the application concerned.

             (7)  If the Minister makes an extension, the Minister must decide the application concerned within the extended period.

             (8)  If the Minister has not decided an application before the end of the day by which the Minister is required to decide it, the Minister is taken to have decided, under whichever of subsections 9(5) and 18(2) is applicable, to refuse the application at the end of that day.

             (9)  Nothing in this section limits the power of the Minister to make a decision under subsection 9(5) or 18(2) otherwise than because of an application under this section.

           (10)  In this section:

"prescribed number of days" means:

                     (a)  in relation to an application under paragraph (1)(a)--30 days; and

                     (b)  in relation to an application under paragraph (1)(b)--60 days.