Queensland Consolidated Acts

LAND ACT 1994 - SECT 56

56 Model by-laws

(1) The Minister may make model by-laws for trust land.

(1A) The chief executive must publish a model by-law made under subsection (1) on a Queensland government website.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) , a model by-law may be made about the following matters—

(a) the protection and use of trust land, including buildings on trust land;

(b) regulating the business and management of trusts;

(c) penalties, not more than 100 penalty units, for the contravention of a model by-law.

(3) A model by-law may state that all or part of trust land is a public place within the meaning of an Act—

(a) conferring or imposing on police officers powers or duties about public places; or

(b) providing for the punishment of offences committed in public places.

(4) If a local government is the trustee it may—

(a) make local laws for the trust land under the Local Government Act 2009 or the City of Brisbane Act 2010 ; and

(b) adopt a model by-law.

(5) If a local government adopts a model by-law, it must follow the procedure under the Local Government Act 2009 for adopting a model local law when it adopts the model by-law.

(6) A local law made under subsection (4) (a) must not be inconsistent with this Act.

(7) A trustee other than a local government, in the way prescribed under the regulations, may adopt as its by-laws all or any of the model by-laws.

(8) A model by-law has no effect unless it is adopted in the prescribed way.

(9) In a proceeding, a copy of a public notice about the adoption of a model by-law is—

(a) evidence of the information in the notice; and

(b) evidence that the model by-law had been properly adopted.

(10) In this section—

"Queensland government website" means a website with a URL that contains ‘qld.gov.au’, other than the website of a local government.