Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 35

35 Chief executive’s powers about permitted uses in national parks

(1) The chief executive may grant, make, issue or give a lease, agreement, licence, permit or other authority over, or in relation to, land in a national park if—

(a) the use under the authority is only for a service facility or an ecotourism facility; and

(b) if the use under the authority is for a service facility, the chief executive is satisfied—

(i) the cardinal principle for the management of national parks will be observed to the greatest possible extent; and

(ii) the use will be in the public interest; and

(iii) the use is ecologically sustainable; and

(iv) there is no reasonably practicable alternative to the use; and

(c) if the use under the authority is for an ecotourism facility, the chief executive is satisfied—

(i) the use will be in the public interest; and

(ii) the use is ecologically sustainable; and

(iii) the use will provide, to the greatest possible extent, for the preservation of the land’s natural condition and the protection of the land’s cultural resources and values; and

(d) the use under the authority is prescribed under a regulation made for this section to be a permitted use for the area.

(2) Subsection (1) —

(a) has effect despite section 15 ; and

(b) does not limit, and is not limited by, section 34 .

(3) This section does not apply to a national park, or a part of a national park, that is an Indigenous joint management area.

Note—

For an Indigenous joint management area, see section 42AO .