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Administrative Procedure Act
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Sections

Part 1 Scope of Application, Local Jurisdiction, Electronic Communication, Administrative Assistance, European Administrative Cooperation

Chapter 1 Scope of Application, Local Jurisdiction, Electronic Communication

• Section 1 — Scope of application
• Section 2 — Exceptions from the scope of application
• Section 3 — Local jurisdiction
• Section 3a — Electronic communication

Chapter 2 Administrative Assistance

• Section 4 — Duty of administrative assistance
• Section 5 — Conditions and limits of administrative assistance
• Section 6 — Selection of the authority
• Section 7 — Conduct of administrative assistance
• Section 8 — Costs of administrative assistance

Chapter 3 European Administrative Cooperation

• Section 8a — Principles of the rendering of assistance
• Section 8b — Form and handling of requests
• Section 8c — Costs of the rendering of assistance
• Section 8d — Communications on the authority's own initiative
• Section 8e — Applicability

Part 2 General Provisions on the Administrative Procedure

Chapter 1 Principles of Procedure

• Section 9 — Concept of the administrative procedure
• Section 10 — Informality of the administrative procedure
• Section 11 — Capacity to be a party
• Section 12 — Capacity to act
• Section 13 — Parties
• Section 14 — Authorised representatives and advisers
• Section 15 — Appointment of an authorised recipient
• Section 16 — Appointment of a representative by the authority's own initiative
• Section 17 — Representative in the case of uniform submissions
• Section 18 — Representative for parties with the same interest
• Section 19 — Common provisions for representatives in the case of uniform submissions and of the same interest
• Section 20 — Persons excluded
• Section 21 — Concern of bias
• Section 22 — Commencement of the procedure
• Section 23 — Official language
• Section 24 — Principle of investigation
• Section 25 — Advice, information, early public participation
• Section 26 — Means of evidence
• Section 27 — Affirmation in lieu of oath
• Section 27a — Publication on the internet
• Section 27b — Laying open of documents
• Section 27c — Discussion with parties to the procedure or with the public
• Section 28 — Hearing of parties
• Section 29 — Inspection of files by parties
• Section 30 — Secrecy

Chapter 2 Time Limits, Dates, Reinstatement

• Section 31 — Time limits and dates
• Section 32 — Reinstatement of former status

Chapter 3 Official Certification

• Section 33 — Certification of documents
• Section 34 — Certification of signatures

Part 3 Administrative Act

Chapter 1 Coming into Being of the Administrative Act

• Section 35 — Concept of the administrative act
• Section 35a — Fully automated issuing of an administrative act
• Section 36 — Ancillary provisions to the administrative act
• Section 37 — Definiteness and form of the administrative act; instruction on legal remedies
• Section 38 — Assurance
• Section 39 — Statement of reasons for the administrative act
• Section 40 — Discretion
• Section 41 — Notification of the administrative act
• Section 42 — Manifest inaccuracies in the administrative act
• Section 42a — Fiction of approval

Chapter 2 Finality of the Administrative Act

• Section 43 — Effectiveness of the administrative act
• Section 44 — Nullity of the administrative act
• Section 45 — Curing of procedural and formal defects
• Section 46 — Consequences of procedural and formal defects
• Section 47 — Conversion of a defective administrative act
• Section 48 — Withdrawal of an unlawful administrative act
• Section 49 — Revocation of a lawful administrative act
• Section 49a — Reimbursement, interest
• Section 50 — Withdrawal and revocation in the legal-remedy procedure
• Section 51 — Resumption of the procedure
• Section 52 — Return of instruments and things

Chapter 3 Effects of the Administrative Act on Limitation

• Section 53 — Suspension of limitation by administrative act

Part 4 Public-Law Contract

• Section 54 — Admissibility of the public-law contract
• Section 55 — Contract of settlement
• Section 56 — Reciprocal contract
• Section 57 — Written form
• Section 58 — Consent of third parties and authorities
• Section 59 — Nullity of the public-law contract
• Section 60 — Adjustment and termination in special cases
• Section 61 — Submission to immediate enforcement
• Section 62 — Correspondent application of provisions

Part 5 Special Types of Procedure

Chapter 1 Formal Administrative Procedure

• Section 63 — Application of the provisions on the formal administrative procedure
• Section 64 — Form of the application
• Section 65 — Participation of witnesses and experts
• Section 66 — Duty to hear parties
• Section 67 — Requirement of an oral hearing
• Section 68 — Course of the oral hearing
• Section 69 — Decision
• Section 70 — Challenge of the decision
• Section 71 — Special provisions for the formal procedure before committees

Chapter 1a Procedure through a Single Point of Contact

• Section 71a — Applicability
• Section 71b — Procedure
• Section 71c — Duties to inform
• Section 71d — Mutual support
• Section 71e — Electronic procedure

Chapter 2 Plan Approval Procedure

• Section 72 — Application of the provisions on the plan approval procedure
• Section 72a — Submission of the plan and organisation of the procedure
• Section 73 — Hearing procedure
• Section 73a — Authority participation
• Section 73b — Discussion hearing
• Section 73c — Plan amendment during the procedure
• Section 73d — Project manager
• Section 74 — Plan approval decision
• Section 74a — Plan approval permission
• Section 74b — Dispensing with plan approval and plan approval permission
• Section 75 — Legal effects of the plan approval
• Section 75a — Lapse of the plan
• Section 76 — Plan amendments before completion of the project
• Section 77 — Setting aside of the plan approval decision
• Section 78 — Concurrence of several projects

Part 6 Legal-Remedy Procedure

• Section 79 — Legal remedies against administrative acts
• Section 80 — Reimbursement of costs in the objection procedure

Part 7 Honorary Activity, Committees

Chapter 1 Honorary Activity

• Section 81 — Application of the provisions on honorary activity
• Section 82 — Duty to undertake honorary activity
• Section 83 — Exercise of honorary activity
• Section 84 — Duty of secrecy
• Section 85 — Compensation
• Section 86 — Removal
• Section 87 — Regulatory offences

Chapter 2 Committees

• Section 88 — Application of the provisions on committees
• Section 89 — Order at meetings
• Section 90 — Quorum
• Section 91 — Adoption of resolutions
• Section 92 — Elections by committees
• Section 93 — Record

Part 8 Final Provisions

• Section 94 — Transfer of municipal functions
• Section 95 — Special rule for defence matters
• Section 96 — Transitional application to procedures
• Section 97
• Section 98
• Section 99
• Section 100 — Land statutory rules
• Section 101 — City-state clause
• Section 102 — Transitional provision to section 53
• Section 102a — Transitional rule for the conduct of administrative procedures
• Section 102b — Transitional provision to sections 72 to 78
• Section 103