Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) To remove any doubt, it is declared that for the Planning Act, section 9, a use of premises does not include clearing vegetation that is assessable development.
(2) Subsection (3) applies if the chief executive is the assessment manager for a vegetation clearing application and is satisfied there is commercial timber on the land the subject of the application.
(3) The chief executive may—
(a) refuse the application to the extent the development will affect the commercial timber; or
(b) grant the vegetation clearing application but impose conditions on the development approval in relation to the commercial timber.
(4) Subsection (5) applies if the chief executive is a concurrence agency for a development application and is satisfied there is commercial timber on the land the subject of the application.
(5) Consideration of the application by the chief executive, in relation to the existence of the timber, is taken to be within the limits of the chief executive's jurisdiction for the Planning Act, section 282.