Queensland Consolidated Acts

QUEENSLAND BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMISSION ACT 1991 - SECT 86C

86C Internal review decision

(1) If an internal review application is made under section 86B , the internal reviewer must, as soon as practicable but within the required period, make a new decision (the
"internal review decision" ) as if the reviewable decision the subject of the application had not been made.

(2) For subsection (1) , the
"required period" is—

(a) 28 business days after the internal review application is made; or

(b) a longer period agreed to by the applicant.

(3) However, if the internal reviewer does not decide the application within the required period, the internal reviewer is taken to have made an internal review decision at the end of the required period that is the same as the reviewable decision.

(4) If the internal reviewer is the commission, the application must not be dealt with by—

(a) the person who made the reviewable decision; or

(b) a person in a less senior office than the person who made the reviewable decision.

(5) Subsection (4) —

(a) applies despite the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , section 27A ; and

(b) does not apply to a reviewable decision made by the commissioner personally.