Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL CARE AND PROTECTION ACT 2001 - SECT 198

198 Notice of internal review decision

(1) The chief executive must, within 10 days after making an internal review decision, give the applicant notice (the
"internal review notice" ) of the decision.

(2) If the internal review decision is not the decision sought by the applicant, the internal review notice must—

(a) for an original decision to seize or forfeit an animal or other thing, state the following—

(i) the reasons for the decision;

(ii) that the applicant may, within 28 days after the notice is given, appeal against the decision to the Magistrates Court;

(iii) how to appeal;

(iv) that the applicant may apply to the court for a stay of the decision; or

(b) for another decision—be accompanied by a QCAT information notice for the decision.

(3) If the chief executive does not give the internal review notice within the 10 days, the chief executive is taken to have made an internal review decision confirming the original decision.

(4) For a decision mentioned in subsection (2) (b) , the chief executive must give an information notice only if this Act so requires.