Queensland Numbered Acts

PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE ACT 2018 - SECT 155

155 Public access to documents

(1) A regulation may prescribe, for a person who has, or has had, powers or functions in relation to this Act—

(a) the documents, including a register, relating to the person’s functions, that the person must or may keep publicly available; and

(b) where, and in what form, the documents must or may be kept; and

(c) whether the documents, or a certified copy of the documents, must or may be kept; and

(d) whether the documents must or may be kept available for inspection and purchase, or for inspection only; and

(e) the period or periods during which the documents must or may be kept.

(2) The person must comply with the regulation in relation to the documents prescribed for the person.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(3) The person must not obstruct another person from inspecting or purchasing a document that must be kept available for inspection or purchase as prescribed by the regulation.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(4) For a document of a type prescribed by regulation, this section does not apply to the person to the extent the person reasonably considers the document contains—

(a) information of a purely private nature about an individual, including, for example, the individual’s name, residential or email address, phone number or signature; or

(b) sensitive security information.

Example—

the location of a safe

(5) Subsection (4) does not apply to the register of licensees kept under section 41 .