Queensland Numbered Acts

COURT AND CIVIL LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2017 - SECT 6

6 Amendment of s 48 (Forms—notification and availability)

(1) Section 48(5), after ‘in the gazette’—
insert—
or on a relevant website

(2) Section 48(6)—
omit, insert—

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

(a) publishing in the gazette or on a 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—stating on the website the date on which it is first published.

(6A) For subsection (5), a form, a new version of a form or a notice is published on a relevant website if it is published on, or accessible through, the website.

(3) Section 48—
insert—

(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.

(4) Section 48(6A) to (9)—
renumber as section 48(7) to (10).