Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The authority must use its best endeavours to make a recommendation under section 79 within 6 months from the day the authority receives the request.
(2) However, the 6 month period mentioned in subsection (1) does not include any of the following—
(a) if the authority conducts an investigation for making the recommendation and gives a notice under section 185 to a person requiring the person to give information or produce a document for the investigation, a day in the period—
(i) starting on the day the notice is given to the person; and
(ii) ending on the day the person complies with the notice;
(b) if the authority publishes a document about the recommendation and invites persons to make submissions on the document to the authority within a stated period—a day in the period for making submissions stated by the authority.
(3) The authority must publish a notice on its website, while the authority is considering the making of the recommendation, stating—
(a) the day the 6 month period mentioned in subsection (1) started or will start; and
(b) the day the period will end; and
(c) for a day not included in the period under subsection (2)—the reason the day is not included in the period.
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(4) If the authority fails to make the recommendation within the 6 month period mentioned in subsection (1), it must, as soon as practicable after the period ends, give written notice of the reasons for the authority's failure to—
(a) the applicant for the request about the declaration of the service; and
(b) if the request was not made by the Ministers—the Ministers.