Queensland Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION ACT 1999 - SECT 143

143 Effect of failure to decide application for, or for renewal of, authority

(1) If the chief executive fails to decide an application for an authority within 90 days after it is properly made—

(a) the chief executive is taken to have decided to refuse the application; and

(b) the applicant is taken to have received notice of the decision at the end of the time.

(2) If an application is properly made for renewal of an authority, the authority is taken to continue to have effect from the day that it would, apart from this subsection, have ended until the application is decided.

(3) However, if the application is refused, the authority continues to have effect until notice of the decision is given to the applicant.

(4) Subsection (1) is subject to section 143A .

(5) Subsection (2) does not apply if the authority is earlier suspended or cancelled.