Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 196

196 National parks (scientific) taken to be national parks and special management areas (scientific)

(1) On the commencement, the area of each national park (scientific)—

(a) continues as a national park under this Act as if it had been dedicated under this Act as a national park; and

(b) is taken to be declared under this Act as a special management area (scientific).

(2) As soon as practicable after the commencement, the chief executive must—

(a) erect or display a notice for the special management area complying with the requirements stated in section 42A(2); and

(b) publish a copy of the notice on the department’s website and in the gazette.

(3) In this section—

"national park (scientific)" means an area that, immediately before the commencement, was a national park (scientific) under this Act.