Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A state building means--
(a) if the building is not occupied--a building, or part of a building, owned by the State or a non-commercial authority of the State; or
(b) in any other case--a building, or part of a building, occupied by the State or a non-commercial authority of the State.
Example of paragraph (b)--
a building leased by the State and used for a court of record of the State
(2) A state building includes the precincts of the building.
(3) If a state building is constituted by only part of a building, a reference to a state building, or to a state building and its precincts, includes the areas of the building the State or a non-commercial authority of the State may lawfully use together with other owners or occupiers of the building.
(4) Also, a state building includes a building and its precincts, or part of a building and its precincts, declared under a regulation to be a state building.
(5) However, a regulation may only declare a building and its precincts, or part of a building and its precincts, to be a state building if--
(a) the building or part is to be used for an activity with which the State is directly concerned; and
(b) the regulation provides for its expiry at a stated time.
Example of subsection (5)--
If the leader of another country is to visit 1 of Queensland's privately owned resorts and the State has or shares responsibility for the security of the leader, the part of the resort occupied by the leader may be declared a state building for the stated time of the leader's stay at the resort.
(6) In this section--
non-commercial authority of the State means an authority of the State that is non-commercial within the meaning of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cwlth), section 2C.