Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 35A

35A Chief executive’s powers about permitted uses for existing service facilities 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 an existing service facility; and

(b) the chief executive is satisfied—

(i) the use is ecologically sustainable; and

(ii) the use does not include carrying out substantial improvements to the existing service facility.

Examples of a substantial improvement to an existing service facility—

• an upgrade of a road that provides access to a communications tower

• the replacement of a pipeline with a larger pipeline

(2) Subsection (1) applies despite sections 15 and 34 (2) , and does not limit section 35 .

(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 42AOA .