47Agency may inquire into certain grievances

##### 47 Agency may inquire into certain grievances (1) An enactment may provide that applications may be made to the Agency for the investigation, in accordance with this Division, of actions of a kind specified in the enactment. (2) Where an enactment makes provision in accordance with subsection (1), the enactment may specify conditions subject to which applications may be made. (3) The Agency has power to investigate, in accordance with this Division, any action in respect of which application is made to it under any enactment. (4) For the purposes of an enactment that makes provision in accordance with this section for the making of applications to the Agency for investigation of actions taken by a Department or Commonwealth authority, a failure by a Department or Commonwealth authority to do an act or thing within the period prescribed by that enactment, or by another enactment having effect under that enactment, or by an industrial award as the period within which the Department or Commonwealth authority is required or permitted to do that act or thing shall be deemed to constitute the making of a decision by the Department or Commonwealth authority at the expiration of that period not to do that act or thing.