Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If immediately before the commencement of this section a local government or the Minister was preparing an amendment of a planning scheme under the repealed Act, the local government or the Minister may--
(a) continue to prepare the amendment as if the repealed Act had not been repealed; or
(b) if the amendment was being prepared to enable the planning scheme to be converted to an IPA planning scheme--continue to prepare the amendment under this Act using the process, for the matters still to be addressed in the preparation of the scheme, stated in schedule 1.
(2) Despite subsection (1)(b) and regardless of the stage the local government may have reached in the preparation of the amendment, if the local government continues the preparation of the amendment under this Act, the local government must follow the process stated in schedule 1, sections 10 to 21.
(3) A proposed amendment mentioned in subsection (1)(a), that is approved by the Governor in Council after the commencement of this section, is an amendment of a transitional planning scheme.
(4) If a proposed amendment mentioned in subsection (1)(b), is adopted by the local government after the commencement of this section, the transitional planning scheme, as amended by the adopted amendment, is an IPA planning scheme.
(5) For subsection (1)--
(a) a local government is taken to have been preparing an amendment of a planning scheme if the local government had made a resolution to amend the planning scheme; or
(b) the Minister is taken to have been preparing an amendment of a planning scheme if the Minister had started to consider the matters specified in section 2.19 of the repealed Act.