Queensland Consolidated Acts

BUILDING ACT 1975 - SECT 332

332 Pending applications

(1) This section applies to an application made but not finally decided or withdrawn before the commencement—

(a) under the unamended Act to the former council; or

(b) by the former council to the tribunal.

(2) On and from the commencement, the application is taken to have been made—

(a) if subsection (1)(a) applies—to the QBCC commissioner under the amended Act; or

(b) if subsection (1)(b) applies—by the commissioner;

when it was made to or by the former council.

(3) For deciding the application, if the context permits—

(a) action taken by the former council before the commencement in relation to the application is action taken by the commissioner under the amended Act; and

(b) the commissioner may be satisfied about a matter merely because the former council was satisfied about the matter under the unamended Act.