WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 228
Stays of reviewable decisions
WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 228
Stays of reviewable decisions
228 Stays of reviewable decisions
(1) An application for an internal review
of a reviewable decision (other than a decision to issue a prohibition notice
or a non-disturbance notice) stays the operation of the decision.
(2) If an
application is made for internal review of a decision to issue a prohibition
notice or a non-disturbance notice, the reviewer may stay the operation of the
decision.
(3) The reviewer may make the decision to stay the operation of a
decision on the reviewer's own initiative or on the application of the
applicant for review.
(4) The reviewer must make a decision on an application
for a stay within one working day after the reviewer receives the application.
(5) If the reviewer has not made a decision to stay a decision within the time
set out in subsection (4), the reviewer is taken to have made a decision to
grant a stay.
(6) A stay of the operation of a decision pending a decision on
an internal review continues until whichever of the following is the earlier--
(a) the end of the prescribed period for applying for an external review of
the decision made on the internal review,
