For an inquiry, suggestion, other or grievance petition, does this Act fix how long the agency has to handle it, or does the period come from elsewhere?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file we check the petition as filed and any acknowledgement of receipt, because the record must show which of the four kinds named in the provision was submitted and on what date it reached the agency, and we read the Presidential Decree text the agency relies on, since the provision sends both the period and the procedure there.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading is that this Act sets no period of its own: for inquiry petitions, suggestion petitions, other petitions and grievance petitions alike, the processing period and the processing procedure are left to be fixed by Presidential Decree, so any time limit has its source in that Decree rather than in the Act.
Another reading stresses what the provision does not reach: it names the four kinds of petition and delegates their period and procedure, but says nothing about which matters fall within 'other petitions', and nothing about petitions of other kinds, so the file must first show the petition belongs among the four before any Decree period can be applied to it.
Your judgment
Given only the petition and the receipt date in the file, what shows which of the four kinds it is and when the Decree's period began to run?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change what it delegates or which kinds of petition it names, or if an official interpretation decides what counts as an 'other petition' and from what event its period runs.