Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if the ombudsman gives to the principal officer of an agency a report under section 50 that makes recommendations.
(2) The ombudsman may ask the agency's principal officer to notify the ombudsman within a stated time of--
(a) the steps taken or proposed to be taken to give effect to the recommendations; or
(b) if no steps, or only some steps, have been or are proposed to be taken to give effect to the recommendations, the reasons for not taking all the steps necessary to give effect to the recommendations.
(3) If--
(a) it appears to the ombudsman that no steps the ombudsman considers appropriate have been taken within a reasonable time after giving the agency's principal officer the report; and
(b) within that time, the ombudsman has considered any comments made by or for the principal officer; and
(c) the ombudsman considers it appropriate;
the ombudsman may give the Premier a copy of the report and a copy of any comments made by the agency's principal officer.
(4) If the ombudsman gives the Premier a copy of a report (the original report) and a copy of any comments, the ombudsman may give the Speaker, for tabling in the Assembly, another report that deals, to the extent the ombudsman considers appropriate, with the original report and the comments.