Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An owner of improvements on a deed of grant in trust that has been surrendered may apply to remove the owner's improvements on the deed of grant in trust.
(2) The owner may remove the improvements only with the written approval of, and within a time stated by, the Minister.
(3) The improvements become the property of the State if—
(a) the Minister has not given written approval for their removal; or
(b) the Minister has given written approval for their removal but the improvements have not been removed within the time stated by the Minister.
(4) However, if the land the subject of surrender is leased or sold, the owner has a right to payment for the improvements under chapter 5, part 5.
(5) In this section—
owner, of improvements, means—
(a) if the trustee under the surrendered deed of grant in trust owned the improvements—the trustee; or
(b) a person who—
(i) made the improvements on the land the subject of the surrender with the trustee's authority; and
(ii) owned the improvements.