Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies, subject to sections 85B to 85E, to a request (a compliance request) for compliance assessment of a plan for regulated work or on-site sewerage work.
(2) A compliance request must be—
(a) in the approved form; and
(b) made to the local government; and
(c) accompanied by the fee fixed by resolution of the local government; and
(d) if the request is about a plan for SEQ water work—accompanied by a document or information to show the work has been approved by or for the relevant service provider.
Examples of a document for paragraph (d)—
a development approval
a Water Supply Act connection approval
(3) The local government may give the person making the request, a written notice (an information request), requesting further information needed to assess the plan.
(4) An information request must be made within 10 business days after the plan is received.
(5) The compliance request must be decided within 20 business days—
(a) if an information request is not made—after receiving the compliance request; or
(b) if an information request is made—after receiving the information requested.
(6) The local government must in deciding the compliance request—
(a) give the person making the request a compliance permit; or
(b) refuse to give a compliance permit.
(7) A compliance permit may be given on reasonable and relevant conditions decided by the local government for achieving compliance.
Examples—
1 A condition of a compliance permit for on-site sewerage work may require the owner of the relevant premises to install a grease arrester for the premises.
2 A condition of a compliance permit for regulated work on premises that involves the installation of water meters may require the person carrying out the work to notify the water service provider for the premises that a particular stage of the work has been reached.
(7A) A local government can not give a compliance permit for SEQ water work unless it is the relevant service provider for the work or 1 of the following applies—
(a) the work has been approved by the distributor-retailer who is the relevant service provider for the work;
Examples of an approval for paragraph (a)—
a development approval
a Water Supply Act connection approval
(b) the local government has been advised by the distributor-retailer in writing that a compliance permit for the type of work may be given without the distributor-retailer's approval.
(7B) A distributor-retailer may give a participating local government a written advice for subsection (7A)(b) for stated types of connections, disconnections or changes to connections for the distributor-retailer's water infrastructure.
(8) If the local government gives a compliance permit, the local government must also give a copy of the permit to—
(a) the owner of the premises to which the permit relates; and
(b) if the permit is for a plan for work involving the installation of water meters on premises—the water service provider for the premises, if the water service provider is not the local government.
(9) If the local government does not decide the compliance request within the time stated in subsection (5), the request is taken to have been refused.
(10) If the local government refuses to give a compliance permit or gives a compliance permit on conditions, the local government must give the person who made the request an information notice about the decision.
Note—
For appeals against the decision, see the Sustainable Planning Act 2009, chapter 7, part 2, divisions 6, 8 and 9.
(11) If an information request is made and the local government does not receive the information requested within the following period, the compliance request lapses—
(a) generally—1 year after the request was made;
(b) if, within the year, the local government agrees to a longer period—the longer period.
(12) If the compliance request lapses under subsection (11), the fee that accompanied the application is not refundable.