Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if the council considers it needs further time to make a decision on the application because of the complexity of the matters that need to be considered in deciding the application.
Example for subsection (1)—
an application requiring the council to obtain and consider information about the applicant from a foreign licensing authority
(2) The council may at any time before the final consideration day give notice to the applicant that—
(a) because of the complexity of the matters that need to be considered in deciding the application, the council needs further time to decide the application; and
(b) the period within which the council must decide the application is extended to a day (the extended day) that is 40 business days after the final consideration day.
(3) Also, the applicant and council may at any time before the final consideration day agree in writing on a day (the agreed extended day) by which the application must be decided.
(4) The council is taken to have decided to refuse to license the applicant if it does not decide the application by—
(a) if subsection (2) applies—the extended day; or
(b) if subsection (3) applies—the agreed extended day; or
(c) if both subsections (2) and (3) apply—the later of the extended day or agreed extended day.
(5) In this section—
final consideration day means the later of the following days—
(a) the day that is 40 business days after receipt of the application;
(b) if the council has, under section 38(1)(b), required the applicant to give the council further information or a document—the day that is 40 business days after the council receives the further information or document.