Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 184B

184B Provision for stock grazing permits for former SEQFA forest reserves

(1) This section applies if—

(a) land in an SEQFA forest reserve is, after the commencement of this section, dedicated as a national park or national park (recovery); and

(b) immediately before the dedication, a stock grazing permit (the
"former permit" ) under the Forestry Act 1959, section 35, was in force for the land.

(2) On the dedication—

(a) the former permit ends; and

(b) the chief executive is taken to have granted the holder of the former permit a previous use authority under section 36.

(3) The previous use authority is taken to—

(a) allow the use of the land, as provided for under the former permit, to continue only for the rest of the term stated in the permit; and

(b) require its grantee to continue to comply with all conditions of the former permit and requirements under the Forestry Act 1959, or of the chief executive of the department in which that Act is administered, that relate to stock grazing permits or the use as if—

(i) the former permit had continued in force; and

(ii) the land were land in an SEQFA forest reserve.

(4) In this section—

"SEQFA forest reserve" means a forest reserve the dedication of which was in force immediately before the commencement of this definition.