Tips on making a submission

What makes a good submission?

Before we finalise our review, we will usually invite you to make a final submission.

Your submission allows us to understand your point of view and to hear from you about your concerns. This is also your opportunity to provide any additional relevant information that you would like us to consider, or to comment on any additional information we have gathered during the course of the review.

You will usually make this submission in writing via email and you will be provided 7 days to do so. If you would prefer to speak to a reviewer by phone, you can do that in addition to or instead of making a written submission.

Submissions are most effective where they:

• are reasonably concise
• provide new and relevant information
• explain your reasons for acting (or not acting) as you did, or your reasons for why a certain decision should (or should not) be made.

Most submissions will not need to be longer than one or two pages. Remember, you do not need to repeat the information you have already given us in your application form and you do not need to send us information we already have. A final submission is a useful opportunity to raise any new information or to provide further explanation or context to information already on hand. In some complex matters, a more lengthy submission may be required. It is best to discuss any questions about your submissions with the reviewer.

If you provide documents or attachments to your submission, you will need to explain how they are relevant, and what impact they have on the decision under review.

If you provide submissions that are very lengthy or you do not explain the relevance of documents you provide, we may not be able to consider your submission or may return it to you and ask you to be remake it in a more concise way.

If your review application is about a breach of the Code of Conduct, or a sanction imposed, you may wish to refer to relevant parts of the APSC's Handling Misconduct guide. The reviewer will likely rely on the guidance in Handling Misconduct in making a review recommendation.

If you have any concerns about how to make an effective submission, you can speak to the reviewer.