Part 7ARequirements for particular applications#

147ADefinitions for part#

In this part—

application

means an application required or permitted to be made under this regulation.

decision-maker

for an application, means the office holder (however described) whose function it is, under this regulation, to decide the application.

information

includes a document.

147BChief executive may publish a notice about applications#

1. (1)The chief executive may, by publishing a notice on the department's website—
2. (a)approve a way in which a stated type of application may be made; or
3. (b)require stated information to be given in or with a stated type of application.
4. (2)A notice under subsection (1)(a) may include requirements for making an application in the approved way.

1. (3)A notice under subsection (1)(b) may only require information that is reasonably necessary for—
2. (a)the purpose of enabling the decision-maker to decide the application; or
3. (b)another purpose related to the application or the thing being applied for.
4. (4)Subsection (1) applies whether or not there is an approved form for making the application.

147CHow applications must be made#

1. (1)An application must be made in any of the following ways—
2. (a)in the approved form for the application;
3. (b)in the way approved under section 147B(1)(a) for making the application;
4. (c)if there is no approved form and no approved way for making the application—in writing.
5. (2)An application must include any information required under section 147B(1)(b).
6. (3)Subsection (2) does not limit another provision of this regulation that requires an application to include, or be accompanied by, particular information.

147DDecision-maker may request further information#

1. (1)The decision-maker for an application may give the applicant a written notice asking for further information that the decision-maker reasonably needs to decide the application.
2. (2)The notice—

1. (a)must state—
2. (i)the information required; and
3. (ii)the time, no earlier than 28 days after the notice is given, by which the information is required to be given; and
4. (iii)that, if the applicant does not comply with the notice, the decision-maker may cancel the application; and
5. (b)may state a way in which the information is required to be given.
6. (3)If the notice does not state a way in which the information is required to be given, the applicant must give the information in writing.
7. (4)If the applicant does not comply with the notice, the decision-maker may give the applicant a further notice cancelling the application.
8. (5)A notice cancelling the application has effect on the day it is given to the applicant or any later day stated in it.