Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Actsaccepted representations, for part 6D, division 6, see section 61QZ(2).
animal life means all mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs, fish, molluscs, crustaceans, insects, and all other species of animal life and the eggs and young thereof.
application for division see section 61RC.
approved form means a form approved by the chief executive (lands) under section 61RU.
beds and banks, used with reference to any watercourse the bed and banks thereof as defined in the Water Act 2000 and where elevations or slopes of land contiguous to the bed and banks as hereinbefore in this definition defined of any watercourse confine or tend to confine the waters flowing in, into or out of such watercourse during the period of any flood or cyclone, the term bed and banks shall include all land covered by the waters so confined or tending to be so confined.
camp includes—
(a) pitch, place or erect a tent, caravan, hut or other structure for the purpose of camping; and
(b) place other camping equipment in position for the purpose of camping; and
(c) stay overnight.
camping form means a form required to be made available by the chief executive under section 34H for use in relation to a self-registration camping area.
carbon sequestration, for a tree or vegetation, includes the process by which the tree or vegetation absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
chief executive (fire) means the chief executive of the department in which the Fire and Rescue Service Act 1990 is administered.
chief executive (lands) means the chief executive within the meaning of the Land Act 1994.
compensation event, for part 6D, see section 61Q.
contiguous, when used in relation to lands set apart and declared as State forests, or timber reserves, includes lands that are separated only by a road or roads or by a watercourse, body of water or other natural feature.
conviction includes a finding of guilt, and the acceptance of a plea of guilty by a court.
Crown holding means land—
(a) held under the Land Act 1962 as a pastoral lease, stud holding, grazing homestead perpetual lease, special lease, development lease (issued on or after 31 December 1991), occupation licence, permissive occupancy or road licence; or
(b) held as a perpetual town lease (non-competitive lease), perpetual suburban lease (non-competitive lease) or perpetual country lease (non-competitive lease)—
(i) that issued under the Land Act 1962 over Crown land on or after 31 December 1991; or
(ii) that issued on or after 31 December 1991 on an application under the Land Act 1962, section 207 that was received—
(A) on or after 5 February 1990; or
(B) in respect of a lease issued under this Act and under an arrangement under the Industrial Development Act 1963, section 9 or issued before the commencement of the Industrial Development Act 1963 under a recommendation of the Minister administering industrial development—on or after 3 October 1991; or
(c) held as a term lease, a perpetual lease, a licence or permit issued under the Land Act 1994; or
(d) held under a lease or licence prescribed under the regulations.
Crown land means all land in Queensland, except land which is, for the time being—
(a) lawfully granted or contracted to be granted in fee simple by the Crown; or
(b) reserved for or dedicated to public purposes; or
(c) subject to any lease or licence lawfully granted by the Crown; or
(d) set apart and declared as a State forest, protected area, national park (recovery) or timber reserve or deemed so to be.
However, land held under an occupation licence, other than an occupation licence referred to in the definition Crown holding, and an occupation licence granted over a timber reserve or any part thereof, shall be deemed to be Crown land.
deed of grant means land granted in fee simple under the Land Act 1994, and includes an indefeasible title under the Land Act 1994.
destroy, used in relation to any tree, means cut down, fell, ringbark, push over, poison or destroy by any means whatsoever.
enforcement warrant, for part 6E, division 9, see section 61SU.
enforcing party means a person appointed by a mortgagee under a registered mortgage.
entrance, in relation to a State forest or a part of a State forest, is an area of land—
(a) developed with the authority of the chief executive for use as a vehicular entrance to the State forest or that part of the State forest; and
(b) that is commonly used by persons for the purpose of driving or riding vehicles into the State forest or that part of the State forest.
feature protection area means the whole or part of a State forest declared as such under this Act.
fire commissioner means the commissioner of the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service.
forest drive means that part of a State forest declared as such under this Act.
forest entitlement area has the same meaning as in the Land Act 1994.
forest officer means a person appointed as a forest officer under section 17.
forest products means all vegetable growth and material of vegetable origin whether living or dead and whether standing or fallen, including timber, and, in relation to a State forest, timber reserve or forest entitlement area the term includes—
(a) honey;
(b) all form of indigenous animal life;
(c) any nest, bower, shelter or structure of any form of indigenous animal life;
(d) fossil remains;
(e) relics;
(f) quarry material;
but does not include grasses on a stock route under the Land Protection (Pest and Stock Route Management) Act 2002, or grasses (indigenous or introduced) or crops grown on a Crown holding by the lessee or by the licensee or on a forest entitlement area by the lessee or owner.
FPQ means Forestry Plantations Queensland.
FPQO means the public service office called Forestry Plantations Queensland Office.
freeholding lease means a freeholding lease under the Land Act 1994, if the deed of grant that will issue from the freeholding lease would be required, under the Land Act 1994, section 22, to contain a reservation mentioned in the section.
Geothermal Act means the Geothermal Energy Act 2010.
get, used in relation to any forest products, includes get, win, cut, saw, fell, dig, gather, remove, convert, or obtain; and used in relation to any earth, soil, or quarry material, includes dig, gather, remove, convert, or obtain.
GHG storage Act means the Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2009.
incidental thing see section 18(1)(ga)(i).
interfere with, used in relation to any forest products, earth, soil, or quarry material, includes destroy, get, damage, mark, move, use, or in any way interfere with.
lake see the Water Act 2000, schedule 4.
licence means a licence under this Act, but does not include a plantation licence.
licence area means the area of State plantation forest specified in a plantation licence or plantation sublicence as the licence area for the plantation licence or plantation sublicence.
management includes control, regulation, construction, maintenance and protection.
Mining Acts means the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999, the Mineral Resources Act 1989, the Petroleum Act 1923 or the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004.
mortgage, in relation to a plantation licence or plantation sublicence, means a mortgage, charge or other security interest granted by—
(a) a plantation licensee over its rights under a plantation licence; or
(b) a plantation sublicensee over its rights under a plantation sublicence.
mortgagee means the person entitled to the benefit of a mortgage.
motor vehicle has the same meaning as in the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995.
National Credit Code means the National Credit Code in Schedule 1 of the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (Cwlth).
native forest hardwood sawlogs means native hardwood timber for use for sawmilling.
native forest sawlog allocation system see section 69A.
natural resource product includes the following—
(a) all parts of a tree or vegetation, whether alive or dead, including parts below the ground;
(b) carbon stored in a tree or vegetation;
(c) carbon sequestration by a tree or vegetation.
notice means a notice, sign, pictograph or other device, of whatever material and whether fixed or movable, erected or displayed in or near a State forest with the authority of the chief executive.
officer means the chief executive or a forest officer.
official traffic sign means an official traffic sign within the meaning of the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995.
original plantation licence, for part 6D, division 7, see section 61RC(1)(a).
owner means, in relation to—
(a) a vehicle that is registered under a law of a State or Territory providing for the registration of vehicles—the person in whose name the vehicle is registered; or
(b) a deed of grant—the registered proprietor; or
(c) a freeholding lease—the lessee.
permit means a permit granted or taken to have been granted under this Act and in force at the material time and, with reference to any particular provision of this Act, a permit of the description appropriate according to that provision.
place includes any house, office, room, tent, building, erection, structure, premises (whether upon land or water), ship, vessel, vehicle or aircraft, and any road, street, thoroughfare, alley, right of way (whether public or private), and any land, whether public or private and whether enclosed or otherwise, and also includes any part of any place.
plantation forestry, for part 6D, see section 61Q.
plantation licence see section 61QA(1).
plantation licence sketch plan, for part 6E, see section 61RL.
plantation licensee see section 61QA(1).
plantation manager means a person appointed as a plantation manager under section 61QG or 61QQ.
plantation officer means a person appointed as a plantation officer under section 17.
plantation operator means any of the following persons—
(a) a plantation licensee;
(b) a plantation sublicensee;
(c) a plantation manager;
(d) a registered mortgagee or an enforcing party exercising power under section 61SQ.
plantation sublicence see section 61QO(2).
plantation sublicensee see section 61QO(1).
prescribed means prescribed by this Act.
protected area means an area dedicated under the Nature Conservation Act 1992 as a national park (scientific), national park, national park (Aboriginal land), national park (Torres Strait Islander land), conservation park or resources reserve.
public purposes means any purposes included within the definition of the term public purpose under the Land Act 1994, schedule 6.
quarry material includes—
(a) guano; and
(b) stone, gravel, sand, rock, clay, earth and soil;
but does not include—
(c) minerals within the meaning of the Mineral Resources Act 1989; or
(d) topsoil, if quarry material is reserved in a deed of grant; or
(e) topsoil on a freeholding lease.
reasonably believes means believes on grounds that are reasonable in the circumstances.
reasonably suspects means suspects on grounds that are reasonable in the circumstances.
recreational purposes means any purpose other than a purpose of business.
register means the register of plantation licences.
registered means registered in the register.
register of plantation licences means the register kept by the chief executive (lands) under section 61RM.
registry means the land registry under the Land Act 1994, section 275.
regulatory notice means a notice referred to in section 34AA(1).
related agreement means an agreement under section 61QB(1).
relevant State land, for part 6D, see section 61Q.
requirement, in relation to a regulatory notice or self-registration camping notice, includes a direction, instruction, indication, condition or other provision contained on the notice.
requisition see section 61TQ(1).
sales permit means a permit granted under section 56.
scientific area means the whole or part of a State forest declared as such under this Act.
seized thing see section 82B.
self-registration camping area means a State forest or a part of a State forest to which a self-registration camping notice relates.
self-registration camping notice means a notice referred to in section 34H(1).
show cause notice, for part 6D, division 6, see section 61QY(2).
show cause period, for part 6D, division 6, see section 61QY(2)(d).
sketch plan, for part 6E, see section 61RL.
State forest means land set apart and declared or deemed to be set apart and declared under this Act as a State forest.
State forest information notice means a notice erected or displayed under section 34AB(1).
State forest park means the whole or part of a State forest declared as such under this Act.
State plantation forest means an area of land declared to be a State plantation forest under section 32A.
stock means cattle, horses, sheep, goats, or swine, or the young of any such animals.
timber includes the trunks, branches, stumps and roots of trees, whether standing or not, and all wood, whether or not the same is cut up, sawn, hewn, split, or otherwise fashioned.
timber reserve means land set apart and declared or deemed to be set apart and declared under this Act as a timber reserve.
topsoil means that part of the soil profile from the earth's surface down to the limit of major biological activity that—
(a) generally contains most of the root systems of native perennial plants; and
(b) is generally darker in colour than underlying material.
trees includes not only timber trees, but all other trees, and shrubs, bushes, seedlings, saplings, and re-shoots of every description and any parts thereof.
unformed plantation forest road see section 61QM(7).
vehicle includes—
(a) a motor vehicle, trailer, bicycle, carriage, cart, wagon and any other means of transport or conveyance designed for movement upon wheels, whether or not the vehicle is for the time being capable of being operated or used in a normal manner; and
(b) a hovercraft.
watercourse includes any river, stream or creek (whether subject to tidal influence or not) in which water flows in a natural channel, either permanently, intermittently, or occasionally.
wild river see the Wild Rivers Act 2005, schedule.
wild river area see the Wild Rivers Act 2005, schedule.
wild river declaration see the Wild Rivers Act 2005, schedule.