Queensland Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1954 - SECT 48

48 Forms—notification and availability

(1) This section applies if under an Act (the
"authorising law" ) forms are to be approved or made available by an entity.

(2) A form under the authorising law must have a heading stating the name of the authorising law and briefly indicating the form’s purpose.

(3) All forms under the authorising law must be numbered using a system that gives each form a unique number.

Examples—

1 Forms may be numbered consecutively starting with the number 1.

2 Forms may be numbered to reflect the provisions of the Act to which they relate.

(4) All versions of a form under the authorising law must be numbered consecutively using a system that gives each version of the form a unique number.

(5) The approval or availability under the authorising law of a form, or a new version of a form, must be notified in the gazette or on a relevant website.

(6) Subsection (5) may be complied with by—

(a) publishing in the gazette or on a relevant website or a website (a
"related website" ) accessible through the relevant website—

(i) the form or the new version; or

(ii) a notice stating—

(A) the approval or availability of the form or the new version; and

(B) the heading, number and version number of the form or the new version; and

(C) a place or places where copies of the form or the new version are available; and

(b) if the form or the new version, or the notice, is published on a relevant website or a related website—stating on the website the date on which it is first published.

(7) On the day the approval or availability of the form is notified or as soon as practicable after the day, copies of the form must be available (for purchase or free of charge) at the place, or each of the places, stated in the notice.

(8) Failure to comply with this section does not affect a form’s validity.

(9) In this section—

"relevant department" , in relation to an entity that approves or makes available forms under an authorising law, means the department in which the authorising law is administered.

"relevant website" means—

(a) for publication in relation to a form, or a new version of a form, approved or made available by a local government—the local government’s website; or

(b) for publication in relation to a form, or a new version of a form, approved or made available by another entity—

(i) the whole-of-government website; or

(ii) the entity’s website; or

(iii) if the entity does not have a website—

(A) the relevant department’s website; or

(B) a website identified on the relevant department’s website as a website for this purpose.

"whole-of-government website" means—

(a) www.qld.gov.au; or

(b) another website prescribed by regulation.