Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AGED CARE ACT 1997 - SECT 85.2

  (1)   If:

  (a)   this Act provides for a person to apply to the Secretary to make a * reviewable decision; and

  (b)   a period is specified under this Act for giving notice of the decision to the applicant; and

  (c)   the Secretary has not notified the applicant of the Secretary's decision within that period;

the Secretary is taken, for the purposes of this Act, to have made a decision to reject the application.

Note:   This subsection cannot apply to decisions under Division   16 (How are allocated places transferred from one person to another?).

  (2)   If:

  (a)   this Act provides for a person to apply to the * Pricing Authority to make a * reviewable decision; and

  (b)   a period is specified under this Act for giving notice of the decision to the applicant; and

  (c)   the Pricing Authority has not notified the applicant of the Pricing Authority's decision within that period;

the Pricing Authority is taken, for the purposes of this Act, to have made a decision to reject the application.