Online Safety Act 2021

Before determining or varying an industry standard, the Commissioner must:

make a copy of the draft available on the Commissioner’s website; and

publish a notice on the Commissioner’s website:

stating that the Commissioner has prepared a draft of the industry standard or variation; and

inviting interested persons to give written comments about the draft to the Commissioner within the period specified in the notice.

The period specified in the notice must run for at least 30 days after the publication of the notice.

Subsection (1) does not apply to a variation if the variation is of a minor nature.

If interested persons have given comments in accordance with a notice under subsection (1), the Commissioner must have due regard to those comments in determining or varying the industry standard, as the case may be.