Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsWhere the chief executive receives documents relating to an overseas order (including a provisional order) that have been transmitted to Queensland for the purpose of having the order made enforceable or confirmed in Queensland and it appears to the chief executive that the defendant is not resident in, or proceeding to, Queensland, but is resident in, or proceeding to, another Australian State, or a reciprocating country other than that in which the order was made, the chief executive may, instead of taking steps with a view to the registration or confirmation of the order in Queensland--
(a) transmit the documents to the collector for that other Australian State or to an appropriate authority in that other reciprocating country together with such information and material as the chief executive possesses for facilitating the identification, and ascertaining the whereabouts, of the defendant; and
(b) give to the officer of a court or other authority in the reciprocating country in which the order was made notice of the fact that the chief executive has so transmitted the documents.