Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If a term lease for pastoral purposes, or a term lease for agricultural or grazing purposes of a type mentioned in section 160A(1), expires or is surrendered absolutely, or a perpetual lease for grazing or agricultural purposes is surrendered, and the State—
(a) sets aside any land, that was a part of the lease, as a reserve for a community purpose; or
(b) dedicates any land, that was a part of the lease, as a road;
the State must pay, to the person who was the lessee, the value of any lawful improvements on the part of the land set aside or dedicated.
(2) The value is the value of the improvements on the day of the expiry or surrender.
(3) The Minister must decide the amount payable.
(4) The value of the improvements must be assessed as their market value in a sale of a lease of the same term and tenure as the expired or surrendered lease.
(5) The lessee may appeal against the Minister's decision.
(6) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the lessee is the owner of improvements made to a lease by the State only if the lessee has paid for the improvements.
(7) In this section—
development work means an improvement.