Queensland Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION (ACCREDITATION OF NON-STATE SCHOOLS) ACT 2001 - SECT 61

61 Compliance notice

(1) This section applies if—

(a) the board reasonably believes—

(i) an accredited school—

(A) is not complying with an accreditation criterion; or

(B) has not complied with an accreditation criterion in circumstances that make it likely the noncompliance will continue or be repeated; and

(ii) a matter relating to the noncompliance is reasonably capable of being rectified; and

(iii) it is appropriate to give the school’s governing body an opportunity to rectify the matter; and

(b) the board has not given a show cause notice, about the noncompliance, to the governing body under section 64 .

(2) The board may give the governing body a notice (a
"compliance notice" ) requiring the governing body to rectify the matter.

(3) The compliance notice must state—

(a) that the board believes the school—

(i) is not complying with an accreditation criterion; or

(ii) has not complied with an accreditation criterion in circumstances that make it likely the noncompliance will continue or be repeated; and

(b) the accreditation criterion the board believes is not being, or has not been, complied with; and

(c) briefly, how the board believes the accreditation criterion is not being, or has not been, complied with; and

(d) the matter relating to the noncompliance that the board believes is reasonably capable of being rectified; and

(e) the reasonable steps the governing body must take to rectify the matter; and

(f) that the governing body must take the steps within a stated reasonable period.

(4) The governing body must comply with the compliance notice, unless the governing body has a reasonable excuse.