Queensland Consolidated Acts

BODY CORPORATE AND COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 236

236 Appointment of dispute resolution officers

(1) The chief executive must appoint appropriately qualified persons as department conciliators and department adjudicators (
"department appointees" ) for conducting the dispute resolution service.

(2) A department appointee—

(a) is appointed under the Public Sector Act 2022 ; and

(b) may hold the office of department appointee as well as an appointment to perform another role under that Act; and

(c) is appointed for conducting the dispute resolution processes stated in the appointment for applications referred to the department appointee.

(3) Also, the chief executive may enter into a contract with an appropriately qualified person under which the person—

(a) agrees to provide department adjudication or department conciliation; and

(b) is appointed as a department adjudicator for conducting department adjudication, or as a department conciliator for conducting department conciliation, for applications referred to the person while the contract is in force.

(4) A person appointed under subsection (3) is appointed under this Act and not the Public Sector Act 2022 .

(5) A person may be appointed under this section for conducting both department conciliation and department adjudication.

Note—

See, however, section 267 (2) .

(6) A person is appointed for specialist mediation, specialist conciliation or specialist adjudication, in the way provided in this chapter, only on a case by case basis.

Note—

Part 7 deals with specialist mediation and conciliation and part 8 deals with specialist adjudication.

(7) In this section—

"appropriately qualified" , for appointment to conduct a dispute resolution process, means having the qualifications, experience or standing appropriate for conducting the dispute resolution process.