Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 42AOA

42AOA Particular powers about permitted uses for existing service facilities on land in particular Indigenous joint management areas

(1) The chief executive and the Indigenous landholder for land in a national park, or part of a national park, that is an Indigenous joint management area, may grant, make, issue or give a lease, agreement, licence, permit or other authority over, or in relation to, the land if—

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

(b) the chief executive and the Indigenous landholder are 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 42AN (2) , and does not limit section 42AO .

(3) As soon as practicable after a lease is granted under subsection (1) , the chief executive must lodge the lease with the registrar of titles for registration.