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130: Interpretation
or “Explaining key terms for appealing health and safety decisions”
You could also call this:

“How to ask for a decision to be reviewed”

If you’re an eligible person and you don’t agree with a decision that can be reviewed, you can ask the regulator to look at the decision again. This is called an internal review. You need to ask for this review within a certain time after you find out about the decision. If it’s about an improvement notice, you have either 14 days or the time given in the notice to fix the problem, whichever is shorter. For other decisions, you have 14 days. If you need more time, you can ask the regulator and they might give you extra time. When you ask for a review, you need to do it in the way the regulator wants you to. They might have a special form or process for you to follow.

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Part 4 Enforcement and other matters
Reviews and appeals: Internal review

131Application for internal review

  1. An eligible person in relation to a reviewable decision may apply to the regulator for review (an internal review) of the decision within—

  2. the specified time after the day on which the decision first came to the eligible person's notice; or
    1. any longer period that the regulator allows.

      1. The application must be made in the manner and form required by the regulator.

      2. For the purposes of this section, the specified time is,—

      3. for a decision to issue an improvement notice, the period specified in the notice for compliance with the notice or 14 days, whichever is the lesser; and
        1. in any other case, 14 days.

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