Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If the application is approved, or approved subject to conditions, the decision notice, or if a negotiated decision notice is given, the negotiated decision notice, is taken to be the development approval and has effect--
(a) if there is no submitter and the applicant does not appeal the decision to the court, from the time--
(i) the decision notice is given; or
(ii) if a negotiated decision notice is given--the negotiated decision notice is given; or
(b) if there is a submitter and the applicant does not appeal the decision to the court, the earlier of the following--
(i) when the submitter's appeal period ends;
(ii) the day the last submitter gives the assessment manager written notice that the submitter will not be appealing the decision; or
(c) if an appeal is made to the court, subject to section 4.1.47(2) and the decision of the court under section 4.1.54--when the appeal is finally decided.
(2) However, if the approval relates to land that was acquisition land to which section 3.2.1(13) applied when the application was made, the development approval does not have effect until the later of the following--
(a) the day the land is taken or acquired under the State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971 or Acquisition of Land Act 1967;
(b) the time the development approval would, other than for this subsection, have effect.
(3) If a submitter acts under subsection (1)(b)(ii), the assessment manager must give the applicant a copy of the submitter's notice.
(4) In this section--
submitter includes an advice agency that has told the assessment manager to treat its response as a properly made submission.
Editor's note--
See section 3.3.19 (Advice agency's response powers).