Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A local government may, by resolution, make and levy on an owner or occupier of rateable land in a declared master planned area a special charge on the land if--
(a) the charge is for making the structure plan for the area; and
(b) in the local government's opinion--
(i) the land, or the owner or occupier of the land, has or will specially benefit from the making of the structure plan; or
(ii) the owner or occupier of the land, or the use made or to be made of the land, has, or will, specially contribute to the need for the making of the structure plan.
(2) The charge may be made and levied on the bases the local government considers appropriate.
(3) However, if an amount has been paid, or is payable, to the local government under an agreement under section 2.5B.74 or an infrastructure agreement for the making of the structure plan, the local government must take into account the amount in levying the charge.
(4) The local government may fix a minimum amount of the charge.
(5) Without limiting subsection (2), the amount of the charge may vary according to the extent to which, in the local government's opinion--
(a) the land, or the owner or occupier of the land, has or will specially benefit from the making of the structure plan; or
(b) the owner or occupier of the land, or the use made or to be made of the land, has, or will, specially contribute to the need for the making of the structure plan.
(6) The local government's resolution making the charge must identify--
(a) the rateable land to which the charge applies; and
(b) the overall plan for the making of the structure plan.
(7) The overall plan must--
(a) be adopted by the local government by resolution either before, or at the same time as, the local government first makes the charge; and
(b) identify the rateable land to which the charge applies; and
(c) describe the process for the making of the structure plan; and
(d) state the estimated cost of implementing the overall plan; and
(e) state the estimated time for implementing the overall plan.
(8) The local government may identify parcels of rateable land to which the charge applies in any way it considers appropriate.
(9) In this section--
rateable land see the Local Government Act 1993, section 957.