Queensland Consolidated Acts

LAND ACT 1994 - SECT 64

64 Minister may dispense with approval

(1) If the Minister considers it appropriate, the Minister may give a relevant person a written authority dispensing with the need to obtain the Minister’s or chief executive’s approval for relevant leases.

(2) If the Minister gives an authority, a relevant lease must be consistent with—

(a) the purpose for which the trust land is dedicated as a reserve or granted in trust; and

(b) the requirements prescribed by regulation.

(3) Despite subsection (2) (a) , if the Minister gives an authority to a trustee of trust land, a trustee lease of the trust land may be inconsistent with the purpose for which the land is dedicated as a reserve or granted in trust if—

(a) the trustee has prepared a management plan for the land that states how the lease would not—

(i) diminish the purpose; or

(ii) adversely affect the public interest; and

(b) the lease is consistent with the management plan.

(4) The Minister, by notice, may withdraw the authority.

(5) A relevant person may apply for approval to lease, sublease or sub-sublease trust land even if an authority is in force.

(6) In this section—

"relevant lease" means—

(a) a trustee lease; or

(b) a sublease of a trustee lease; or

(c) a sub-sublease of a trustee lease.

"relevant person" means—

(a) a trustee; or

(b) a lessee under a trustee lease; or

(c) a sublessee under a sublease of a trustee lease.