Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 42AJ

42AJ Declaration of other land as an Indigenous joint management area

(1) This section applies to land in the North Stradbroke Island Region, other than land to which section 42AI applies, that is not a prescribed protected area or included in a prescribed protected area if—

(a) under the Aboriginal Land Act 1991 , an entity has entered into an Indigenous management agreement for the land; and

(b) the Minister and the entity agree that the land is to be managed as an Indigenous joint management area.

(2) If the land becomes Aboriginal land—

(a) the grant of the land as Aboriginal land is subject to a condition that the land must become—

(i) a prescribed protected area; and

(ii) an Indigenous joint management area; and

(b) the Minister must recommend to the Governor in Council the making of a regulation—

(i) dedicating the land as a prescribed protected area; and

(ii) declaring the land as an Indigenous joint management area.