Queensland Numbered Acts

MERIBA OMASKER KAZIW KAZIPA (TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER TRADITIONAL CHILD REARING PRACTICE) ACT 2020 - SECT 41

41 Commissioner may request additional information

(1) The commissioner may, by notice given to an applicant for a cultural recognition order, ask the applicant for further information or a document the commissioner reasonably requires to decide whether to make a cultural recognition order.

(2) The notice—

(a) must state a reasonable period of at least 30 business days within which the applicant must give the information or document to the commissioner; and

(b) must state that an applicant may request that the commissioner extend the period mentioned in paragraph (a) ; and

(c) may require the information or document be verified by statutory declaration.

(3) The commissioner may extend the period mentioned in subsection (2) (a) by notice given to the person—

(a) on the commissioner’s own initiative; or

(b) if an applicant makes a request under subsection (2) (b) .

(4) The commissioner may decide whether to make a cultural recognition order regardless of whether the applicant gives the further information or document requested.