Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00071:reg:11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00071
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 11
Character Range: 29910–31311

11  Application for determination
 (1) The Secretary may give a written request to the Quality and Safety Commissioner for the following information about a residential care service:
 (a) whether an accreditation application by the approved provider of the service has been received by the Quality and Safety Commission;
 (b) if so, information about the status of the accreditation application.
Note: Accreditation application is defined in section 4.
 (2) If the response states that the approved provider has made an accreditation application in relation to the residential care service, and that a decision has been made not to accredit or re‑accredit the service, or that no decision has been made on the application:
 (a) the accreditation application is taken to include an exceptional circumstances determination application in relation to the service; and
 (b) the date on which the response was received by the Secretary is taken to be the date on which the exceptional circumstances determination application was received by the Secretary.
 (3) Subsection (2) applies whether or not the accreditation application complies with subsection 28(1) of the Quality and Safety Commission Rules.
 (4) Nothing in this section prevents an approved provider of a residential care service from making an exceptional circumstances determination application to the Secretary in relation to the service.