I. The department of health and human services may file with the clerk of the district court or the judicial branch family division court where the dispositional order was issued an application for review of the order by the review panel. The application shall be filed within 7 days after the date of the dispositional order, but not thereafter except for good cause shown. The filing of an application for review shall stay the implementation of the dispositional order.
II. Upon issuance of the dispositional order, the clerk shall give oral and written notice to the department of health and human services of its right to make such a request. A form for making the application shall accompany the notice. If an application is filed, the clerk shall forthwith transmit it to the review panel and shall notify the administrative justice and judge who issued the dispositional order of the filing.

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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 169-G:2

  • justice: when applied to a magistrate, shall mean a justice of a municipal court, or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction over the subject-matter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:12

III. The judge who issued the dispositional order may transmit to the review panel a statement of the reasons for the dispositional order and shall transmit such a statement within 7 days if requested to do so by the review panel.