Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 186

186 Dealing with acquisition land

(1) The owner of acquisition land must not dispose of the land other than to—

(a) if the entity stated in the notice given under the Reconstruction Act, section 44 (1) (a) (ii) for the land (the
"relevant notice" ) is the Queensland Reconstruction Authority—the Coordinator-General; or

(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply—the local government stated in the relevant notice for the land.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—165 penalty units.

(2) If subsection (1) (a) applies to the owner of acquisition land and the owner gives the Coordinator-General a written notice stating that the owner proposes to sell the land, the Coordinator-General must acquire the land from the owner in the way provided for under section 125 of this Act.

(3) If subsection (1) (b) applies to the owner of acquisition land, and the owner gives the local government stated in the relevant notice for the land a written notice stating that the owner proposes to sell the land, the local government must acquire the land from the owner in the way provided for under the Acquisition of Land Act 1967 .

(4) If any transaction is entered into in contravention of subsection (1) , the transaction is not invalid, and the new owner is taken to have been given notice under the Reconstruction Act, section 44 (1) (a) .

(5) This section does not limit the Coordinator-General’s power to otherwise take the land under this Act.

(6) In this section—

"acquisition land" means land that, immediately before the expiry of the Reconstruction Act, is land to which section 100 of that Act applies.