Queensland Consolidated Acts

VEGETATION MANAGEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 107

107 Existing show cause notices and compliance notices

(1) Subsection (2) applies if, before 8 October 2009—

(a) a person was given a show cause notice under the repealed Moratorium Act, section 24 in relation to the carrying out of prohibited development under that Act; and

(b) the chief executive has not under the repealed Moratorium Act, section 25 given the person a notice stating that the proposed action will not be taken; and

(c) an official has not under the repealed Moratorium Act, section 26(1) given the person a compliance notice.

(2) From 8 October 2009—

(a) the repealed Moratorium Act, sections 25 and 26(1) to (4) continue to apply; and

(b) a reference to a compliance notice in the provisions is taken to be a reference to a restoration notice; and

(c) a reference in the compliance notice to carrying out prohibited development is taken to be a reference to committing a vegetation clearing offence in the restoration notice.

(3) Subsection (4) applies if a compliance notice was given under the repealed Moratorium Act, section 26 before 8 October 2009 in relation to the carrying out of prohibited development under that Act.

(4) From 8 October 2009—

(a) the compliance notice is taken to be a restoration notice; and

(b) a reference in the compliance notice to carrying out prohibited development is taken to be a reference to committing a vegetation clearing offence in the restoration notice.

(5) In this section—

"compliance notice" see the repealed Moratorium Act, section 24(2).

"show cause notice" means a notice that complies with the Moratorium Act, section 24(3).