Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A local government has the exclusive right to provide a ferry service across a watercourse if the land that forms both banks of the watercourse is in its local government area.
(2) A watercourse is a river, creek or channel where water flows naturally.
(3) A local government may—
(a) lease the right to provide a ferry service across a watercourse that it has the exclusive right to provide a ferry service across; and
(b) make local laws for managing and regulating the use of ferries operated or leased by it.
(4) A regulation may—
(a) declare another watercourse that a local government has the exclusive right to provide a ferry service across; and
(b) provide for any other matter connected with the provision of ferry services (including declaring the approaches to a ferry as being under the control of a local government, for example).