Who decides an application for relief money under this provision, and what must that decision contain?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file of this kind we read the application for relief money and any record of the date the district deliberation committee received it, since the duty attaches on receipt, and the committee's decision paper, which shows which body decided and whether it states payment or refusal and, where payment, the amount fixed.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the provision as naming a single actor with a fixed duty: the district deliberation committee, on receiving an application under the preceding provision, must decide promptly either to pay the relief money or not to pay it, and a decision to pay must also fix the amount.
Another reading stresses the limits: the duty only reaches an application properly made under the preceding provision, the word 'promptly' sets no period the provision states, and the provision says nothing about who may apply, what grounds a decision rests on, or how a refusal may be challenged.
Your judgment
Given the duty to decide promptly, what in the file would show how long the application waited before the committee's decision?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to set a period for deciding or to name who may apply, or if a court decision clarifies what a refusal to pay must state or how it may be reviewed.