Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Subsection (2) applies to an owner of land a moratorium notice affects if—
(a) the owner is completing works that had been started at the time the notice was published; and
(b) the works will not be completed by the day stated in the notice (the completion day); and
(c) the owner wishes to apply for an extension of the completion day.
(2) The owner—
(a) must stop construction of the works by the completion day; and
(b) may apply to the Minister for an extension of the completion day if—
(i) the works are substantially completed; or
(ii) the works will not be completed by the completion day because of a change in circumstances beyond the applicant's control including, for example, construction difficulties, extreme bad weather or the applicant's ill health.
(3) The application must—
(a) be in the approved form; and
(b) be accompanied by the prescribed fee; and
(c) be made before the completion day; and
(d) show that the works were started before the notice was published; and
(e) show the extent to which the works are completed and the extent to which the applicant anticipates the works will be completed by the completion day; and
(f) state the day by which the applicant anticipates the works will be completed; and
(g) if the works are not completed because of circumstances mentioned in subsection (2)(b)(ii)—state the circumstances.
(4) The Minister must refer the application to a referral panel established under section 1004A.
(5) When the Minister receives the referral panel's recommendation, the Minister must—
(a) decide the application, taking into account the panel's recommendation; and
(b) give the applicant notice of the decision; and
(c) publish the decision in the gazette.
(6) If the Minister grants the application, the moratorium notice, for the applicant, is varied in the following way—
(a) the completion day, for the works, is the day stated in the Minister's notice;
(b) the works may be completed to the extent stated in the notice.