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ADOPTION ACT 2000 - SECT 190

Duty of relevant decision maker to give reasons in request

190 Duty of relevant decision maker to give reasons in request

(1) If the relevant decision maker makes a reviewable decision, an interested person may make a written request to the relevant decision maker for the reasons for the decision.
(2) As soon as practicable (and in any event within 28 days) after receiving such a request, the relevant decision maker is to prepare a written statement of the reasons for the decision and provide it to the person who requested the reasons.
(3) The statement of reasons is to set out the following--
(a) the findings on material questions of fact, referring to the evidence or other material on which those findings were based,
(b) the relevant decision maker's understanding of the applicable law,
(c) the reasoning processes that led the relevant decision maker to the conclusions the relevant decision maker made.
(4) Unless the regulations otherwise provide, this section applies to the exclusion of the provisions of Division 2 of Part 2 of Chapter 3 of the Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 .
(5) The regulations may--
(a) exclude any class of reviewable decisions from the application of this section, or
(b) alter the period within which a statement of reasons under this section must be given.



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