Queensland Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 29

29 Local law making process

(1) A local government may decide its own process for making a local law to the extent that the process is not inconsistent with this part.

(2) A local government makes a local law by passing a resolution to make the local law.

(3) If a local government proposes to make a local law about a matter (the
"new local law" ) and there is an existing local law about the same matter that would be inconsistent with the new local law, the local government must amend or repeal the existing local law so that there is no inconsistency.

Note—

The new local law may include the amendment or repeal of the inconsistent law in the same instrument.

(4) An interim local law must include a provision stating when the law expires.

(5) A local government must ensure its local laws are drafted in compliance with the guidelines issued by the Parliamentary Counsel under the Legislative Standards Act 1992 , section 9 for local laws and subordinate local laws.

(6) To remove any doubt, it is declared that a local government does not have to carry out any public consultation before making either of the following—

(a) an interim local law;

(b) a local law that only incorporates a model local law and does not contain an anti-competitive provision.