Queensland Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING AND OFFENDER PROHIBITION ORDER) ACT 2004 - SECT 67I

67I Internal review

(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after receiving the application, the police commissioner must—

(a) review the decision; and

(b) decide to—

(i) confirm the decision; or

(ii) amend the decision; or

(iii) substitute another decision for the decision.

(2) The application must not be decided by—

(a) the person who made the decision; or

(b) a person in a less senior office than the person who made the decision.

(3) Subsection (2) —

(a) applies despite the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , section 27A ; and

(b) does not apply to a decision made by the police commissioner.

(4) If the police commissioner decides to confirm or amend the decision, the decision, or the amended decision, is taken to be the police commissioner’s decision for the purpose of an appeal under division 3 .

(5) The police commissioner must give the reportable offender a written notice that states—

(a) the decision on the review; and

(b) the reasons for the decision; and

(c) that the offender may appeal against the decision to a Magistrates Court within 28 days after the day when the notice is given to the offender.

(6) If the police commissioner does not give the notice to the reportable offender within 10 business days after making a decision, the commissioner is taken to have confirmed the decision.