(1) This section
applies if —
(a) a
consent, permission or approval is required or authorised under this Act or
any other written law to accompany or be endorsed on, lodged with or given in
relation to a document lodged, presented, filed or deposited with the
Authority, the Commissioner or the Registrar; and
(b) the
consent, permission or approval is not provided in the way required or
authorised under this Act or the other written law but is provided in another
way in accordance with —
(i)
regulations made under this Act; or
(ii)
requirements determined under section 182A.
(2) If this section
applies —
(a) for
the purposes of this Act and any other written law,
providing the consent, permission or approval as mentioned in
subsection (1)(b) is to be taken to be authorised by this Act or, as the case
requires, the other written law; and
(b) for
the purposes of this Act and any other written law, the consent, permission or
approval provided as mentioned in subsection (1)(b) —
(i)
is to be taken to have been provided in the way required
or authorised under this Act or, as the case requires, the other written law;
and
(ii)
has the same effect as if it had been provided in the way
required or authorised under this Act or, as the case requires, the other
written law;
and
(c) the
Registrar or, as the case requires, the Commissioner or the Authority may take
any action that they are required or authorised to take under this Act or any
other written law as if the consent, permission or approval had been provided
in the way required under this Act or the other written law.
[Section 232B inserted: No. 2 of 2014 s. 87.]